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I wouldn’t exactly call Kevin Myers one of my favourite writers, but it takes a belly full of bile to compose an epistle of anger this good.
I must admit to harbouring similar feelings for some of the people I’ve encountered along the way.
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I was one of the people interviewed for Andrew Currah’s What’s Happening to Our News, which is out today. Don’t let that put you off. Andrew’s an economic geographer - different, I guess, from a geographic economist - maybe it’s an economist who knows where he is.
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So you still haven’t seen The Wire? Probably the single best thing on a TV monitor since the genius that was Alan Bleasdale’s G.B.H., and 21C television’s single best attempt at recreating the 19C novel.
It’s dense structure and tight plotting means it has to be watched night after night - not once a week - […]
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Having written a book about trust in the media, I tend to keep track of the endless trust polling that pours forth. Here’s the latest from TNS.
When it comes to newspapers TNS observed that less than a quarter (23%) of UK respondents ‘highly trusted’ newspapers. In fact the UK gave the lowest score in […]
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Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences).
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks […]
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The European Court of Human Rights could be greenlighting the kind of political advertising that the United States has grown used to.
Russ Taylor at Ofcomwatch alerted me to the ruling.
My caveats?
The Government doesn’t want it
Newspapers don’t want it
Political parties can’t afford it.
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
