Twitter is the new email…BT JP says so…

I joined Twitter about two weeks back and am loving the site which allows me to meet, greet, follow and write text message style stuff to people. I am linked with all types of journalists, celebs and politicians. Awesome!
JP Ragaswami (BT top bod) said he was a huge fan of twitter. He is an IT genius and talks the real deal. So listen to him. He was doing an interview with Information age: http://www.information-age.com/blog/990022/a-little-bird-told-me-twitter-is-ready-for-business.thtmlp.s. I am the teaboy for the BT Newsroom working one day a week. I started working for BT 1.5 years ago (aged 18). This is how I came to hear of JP. I emailed him about a HR report, thinking he was someone else. JP had no clue who was emailing him but he wasn’t rude instead a genuine nice character.

BBC should buy the national ‘Independant’ newspaper!

In a world of gloom and mass recession where banks, retail shops and TV channels are going down the drain. We can only expect worse things to happen! Newspapers are increasingly having to write articles which are less about independant journalism but rater PR stories spun to sound independant, they are just are articles filled with advertorials (PR releases copied and pasted). So what can we do to keep impartiality of our national newspapers? I propose a buyout of the Independant by the BBC (before it collapses). A newspaper for the people produced through the licence fee where investagatory journalism can recieve a fresh lease of life. If the Independant starts doing ‘free thinking’ journalism I think the other nationals will follow.

Do I have to write with 'political allegiance' when writing for a paper?

Today, I have been doing some research on the Guardian and it's history. I know all papers have a different angle and usually come with a political opinion but do I have to have one to write for the Times, Guardian, Mail etc.. I do support I party as you will find out as I continue to blog about crap. But if I write for the Times do I have to support the right (conservatives) or Guardian, the left.
I want to know if my stories will be my own or politically spun to support political parties? Do national papers have a free voice or is journalism, just another form of PR ( this was one of my reasons for studying PR, not journalism at University.)

Me, myself and I

Hello, I am new to the wordpress world but am having ago for a BA module - I will chatter about the goings on in my life which probably wont be much as I am a student sleeper. I do, however, spend alot of time twittering as a tea boy tweeter on random IT crap so may go into more detail about my revolutionist ideas on this site and am an avid Facebook and LinkedIn fan. So maybe this blog will give some good stuff abot IT technology, current affairs and my IT Comms lectures but probably will be me rambling (like I am now) about shit. I will update in a little bit. PEACE PEOPLE!