MARK THOMPSON
(Mark John Thompson)
Ironically politicians need the journalists to communicate their message adn get public exposure and the Journalists need the politicians to provide subject matter and to serve as sources. Each uses the other which produces resentment.
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Mark John Thompson is a British media executive who is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world. He is the former president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. From 2004 to 2012, he served as Director-General of the BBC, and before that was the Chief Executive of Channel 4. In 2009 Thompson was ranked as the 65th most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2017.
