Been away? Martin Dickson, deputy editor, highlights some of the best stories from the FT since December 15
No shortage of news this December, with Israel’s pummelling of Gaza, the unfolding of the extraordinary Madoff scandal, and an ever-grimmer mood in economies around the globe during the three weeks covered by this holiday season note.
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“The lyrics yield no great mystery. But, set to the right music, a meaning is disclosed that hardly seemed to be hidden in the prose.”
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10521
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Introduction: Asian and western governments (barring Germany) reflate their economies to stave off a global depression; sterling slumps against the euro and yen; China reported a stomach-churning 2.2 per cent year-on-year fall in exports in November; the Big Three car-makers in Detroit slide toward bankruptcy; President Nicolas Sarkozy bullies his fellow Europeans into a compromise over carbon emissions; and Bernard Madoff, a pillar of the New York financial establishment, confesses to running a $50bn Ponzi scheme.
While we like to see new readers discovering our blogs and joining the discussion, a good “flaming” like the one Gideon Rachman’s blog received this week raises again the vexed issue of comment moderation. Some of the less offensive comments on his musings about the possibility of a world government include:
and my personal favourite,
“RETARTED“
So what is the FT’s approach to comments on articles from readers?
Links from FT editors in the last 24 hours
“The wisdom of crowds may tend towards the obvious…but deliberately aiming to appeal there would bend the Guardian’s profile completely out of shape”
Neiman Jounalism Lab on reasons to link out
by Paul Murphy, FT Alphaville editor
FT Alphaville has been refreshed! Our hyper-active financial blog has taken on the new FT.com livery and we’ve also introduced some important new improvements to functionality.
Introduction: Terrorists stage a two-day massacre in Mumbai; Alistair Darling slashes VAT and urges British consumers to spend, spend, spend; Woolworths goes bankrupt; Angela Merkel refuses to reflate the German economy; BHP drops its bid for Rio; and Huang Guangyu, China’s richest man, is detained on suspicion of share price manipulation.
Jamil Anderlini, FT correspondent in Beijing, won print/web feature of the year at the UK Foreign Press Association Awards for his multimedia reporting on Chinese peasants’ demands for land rights.
Of particular note is that Jamil’s coverage combined text and video, using each to their advantage - text for depth and analysis, video for immediacy.
Credit, too, to Du Juan, who did the filming, and to Darryl Thompson and Fang Wang in London who edited the footage into a tight narrative.
Links from FT editors in the last 24 hours
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