Difference between revisions of "Michael Cole"
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| − | '''Michael Cole''' is a PR executive and former television journalist. He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the [[BBC]]. Then he worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at [[Harrods]] and the [[House of Fraser]] group before leaving to set up his own company. <ref>Michael Cole & Company Ltd, [http://www.michaelcole.tv/ Homepage] [Accessed 11 April]</ref> Cole was sympathetic to [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in office he | + | '''Michael Cole''' is a PR executive and former television journalist. He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the [[BBC]]. Then he worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at [[Harrods]] and the [[House of Fraser]] group before leaving to set up his own company. <ref>Michael Cole & Company Ltd, [http://www.michaelcole.tv/ Homepage] [Accessed 11 April]</ref> Cole was sympathetic to [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in office he commented in a letter that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' <ref>Stephen Bates, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/19/margaret-thatcher-papers-bbc-itv Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC]', ''Guardian'', 19 March 2011.</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 13:33, 13 April 2011
Michael Cole is a PR executive and former television journalist. He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the BBC. Then he worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at Harrods and the House of Fraser group before leaving to set up his own company. [1] Cole was sympathetic to Margaret Thatcher. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in office he commented in a letter that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' [2]
Notes
- ↑ Michael Cole & Company Ltd, Homepage [Accessed 11 April]
- ↑ Stephen Bates, 'Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC', Guardian, 19 March 2011.
