From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Can You Trust The Media? — regretting the errors

March 31, 2008

So the thing about writ­ing books and not blog posts is that they go to print­ers. Then people point out that you might not have got some­thing right. And there is no com­ments sec­tion and no oppor­tun­ity to update what you have writ­ten (bar­ring the mir­acle of other edi­tions). So what to do about it? […]

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Can You Trust The Media? — the basic outline

March 30, 2008

In case you can’t make it to Cam­bridge, here is an out­line of the argu­ments presen­ted in Can You Trust The Media? There will be a launch event at City Uni­ver­sity on 30 April at 6.30pm. More details later. If you’d like to review the book online con­tact me for a pdf. But first what does CYTTM […]

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Serious journalism — now eat your greens

March 30, 2008

Good to see that the altern­at­ive to my hol­i­day in Corn­wall (think rain, high winds, etc.) was the Berkman con­fer­ence in sunny Los Angeles. But, between sneez­ing and shiv­er­ing, think of the car­bon dividend! Good too to see Brits like Charlie Beck­ett and Neil McIn­tosh ground­ing some of the pro­ceed­ings: Ser­i­ous journ­al­ism was described … […]

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Selling public enlightenment — the lessons of sport

March 29, 2008

Is it journ­al­ism’s job to inform soci­ety and cheer­lead for polit­ics? I don’t think so, but a lot of people do. One of the freedoms people seem hap­pi­est to trade for mater­ial prosper­ity is free­dom from polit­ics. But not journ­al­ists. (Per­haps it’s our com­par­at­ive lack of mater­ial prosper­ity.) We love it.

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Can You Trust The Media? — Cambridge Wordfest [Sunday, 30 March, 3.30pm]

March 19, 2008

Before I dis­ap­pear on hol­i­day (Corn­wall. Yes, I know the fore­casts. Miser­able. Thanks for ask­ing.), you are cor­di­ally invited to book to see Allison Pear­son and me chew the fat re: the issues behind the forth­com­ing book. If you want to spend a day punt­ing on the Cam and then spoil it by hear­ing me equi­voc­ate then the […]

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Can consultants save national newspapers?

March 19, 2008

The Ernst & Young report on UK national news­pa­pers is avail­able here if you really want to read it. It is worth a look, BUT (…that’s a big but btw) it has the most irrit­at­ing consultant-style stuff in it. I know journ­al­ists are often accused of twist­ing quotes, but their liber­ties pale in com­par­ison to con­sult­ants’ abil­ity to […]

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