From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Can You Trust The Media? — post launch

April 30, 2008

So not every­one gets the book, and I — like an idiot — went in pre­pared to defend the detail without explain­ing the big pic­ture, utterly ignor­ing everything I would ever tell people… Accused of nihil­ism (by Andrew Gil­ligan) I was slightly embar­rassed. My first great lit­er­ary love was Fath­ers and Sons, Turgenev’s novel which gave nihilism […]

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Can You Trust The Media? — launch

April 30, 2008

So tonight is the launch event for my book, timed bril­liantly on the eve of a con­test that will decide the future hap­pi­ness of a great swathe of Lon­don­ers. Not the may­oral elec­tions of course, but the Chelsea vs Liv­er­pool Cham­pi­ons League semi-final.

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Al Jazeera: more integration between Arabic and English

April 30, 2008

My track record on industry gos­sip is so lam­ent­able that I try not to pass on what little I hear. But this rumour of a per­son­nel shift ahoy at Al Jaz­eera, has the ring of cred­ib­il­ity — and it sounds like a sens­ible regroup­ing by the Middle East­ern news net­work. Word is that the bur­eau chief of Al Jazeera […]

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WSJ’s independence — safe in their…Oops!">The WSJ’s independence — safe in their…Oops!

April 29, 2008

So what was the point of that spe­cial com­mit­tee to over­see edit­or­ial inde­pend­ence at the Wall Street Journal? I must remind myself. Oh yes.

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Fun with metrics

April 29, 2008

Met­rics, met­rics, met­rics. Don’t you just love them? E&P quotes the latest Nielsen fig­ures out show­ing how long people spend at news sites. Brand or Chan­nel — Mar. ’08 Time per Per­son (hh:mm:ss) — Mar. ’07 Time per Per­son March 07 (hh:mm:ss) NYTimes.com — 0:37:14 — 0:33:48USATODAY.com — 0:11:26 — 0:17:50washingtonpost.com — 0:16:15 — 0:18:01Wall […]

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BBC News: Crime Time">BBC News: Crime Time

April 28, 2008

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