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Media 100 kicks off Silly Season

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Jul 9th, 2007 • Category: Media Management

The Silly Season must have started: Media Guardian publishes its Media 100 list of the people who wield the most power in the British media industry. Not only have the old lists been torn up to give the judges a fresh start, but there are 99 people in the list. The hundredth place is given to Facebook in a poke at being trendy by including a fashionable fad.

As a parlour game, underlined by almost half of those on the list being included for the first time, it is fun. But it really tells us more about the judges than it does about media power.

Now why didn’t they include…? No, I am not going to play.

Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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