Rolling 24 hour news channels drive the news agenda. They are on permanently in newsrooms, government and business offices. Every country used to have an airline as a symbol of national pride, now they have a news channel.
Writes Charlie Beckett at his Polis blog and argues that it is time to differentiate some of the product.
He has some valuable experience in this being a producer at the launch of News24 which he says
By the time it got on air was much more like Sky News and within a year it was entirely the same.
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