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Listed below are comments made by PaulMasonOfNewsnight between Monday, 28th July 2008 and Tuesday, 29th July 2008.

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Bank balance sheets become focus of scrutiny 11:15pm on 29 Jul 2008 In on-screen reporting you can pursue bar stool intelligence and try to stand it up as fact. With blogging, I think it's legitimate to explain what people are saying if it's relevant and plausible and doesn't libel anybody, and especially when as "sentiment" it is a material factor in events. If people are beginning to act on an idea it becomes relevant even if not true. I'm trying to help people understand the scale of private concern in the financial sector, is all.
Now somebody's saying the banks will be nationalised! 11:09pm on 29 Jul 2008 Yes it is true my boss is joining Google as a public affairs guru :) I will look forward to hassling him for an interview with Sergey and Larry, and over their compliance with Chinese state censorship and generally on information privacy issues.

Actually I keep wondering why Google, which does not produce content, has decided to recruit one of TV's true content visionaries. I'd be interested in the answer if I was a shareholder - or rival!
Bank balance sheets become focus of scrutiny 7:48pm on 28 Jul 2008 Hi #13, #14, #15 - if this were "reporting" then you would have a point. As it is, it is blogging. It is not meant to be award winning journalism.

And I am not reporting "unsubstantiated gossip" - I am reporting a real conversation between two serious people. I am absolutely sure neither of them *knows* a bank will fail. I am sure one of them is going to be taking investment decisions on the basis of this. Sure, for those in the know, there is nothing new (ie today new) here; however I am trying to piece together what is happening and I now think the UK authorities are right to have put so much emphasis on pre-emptive banking regulation. They see a lot more than any of us.

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