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Will security journalism show its teeth?
How hard will security correspondents push MI5 on the issues highlighted by the Fertiliser trial? The Sun puts the case for the prosecution. The Telegraph‘s Home Affairs editor, Philip Johnston (whose personal advocacy on behalf of the security services is a matter of record) has the case for the defence. So will this be a…
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Dead journalists
I hadn’t come across this poem before from former foreign corrrespondent James Fenton. [HT: 3quarksdaily] It’s a tribute to dead journalists, but it doesn’t work for me. It reads like a cheap Auden pastiche. Perhaps there’s an appropriate irony there? I prefer Harry Evans’ valediction for David Blundy. Still, you might have a different view.…
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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…