Month: November 2008

  • Unrequired Reading {29.11.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • Beyond Trust…

    A new book, Beyond Trust picks up some of the issues raised in Can You Trust The Media? Here’s Kevin Marsh, siding with Andrew Gilligan, in viewing the book as nihilistic: Journalism’s journey – in Professor Larry Sabato’s (1991) description – from ‘lapdog, through watchdog to junkyard dog’ with all that entails in loss of…

  • Unrequired Reading {28.11.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • The BNP: a postscript

    A follow-up to this post on the British National Party. Although the copy has disappeared from the BNP’s own website there is still a version of the piece they wrote asking members to email me. It appears at www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=41944 (motto: White Pride, World Wide). Race Hate attacks ignored by Channel 5 …One of our Lancashire…