adrian monck

Month: March 2008

  • Can You Trust The Media? – regretting the errors

    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?…

  • Can You Trust The Media? – the basic outline

    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…

  • Serious journalism – now eat your greens

    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 ……

  • Selling public enlightenment – the lessons of sport

    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.