adrian monck

Month: November 2006

  • Remembering Balfour

    A journalist friend on a Middle Eastern newspaper asked me about the 89th anniversary of the Balfour declaration. His paper is publishing a special supplement! He wondered how the anniversary was marked in Britain. The answer of course, is with bemused silence…why would we mark that anniversary year by year? Arthur Balfour was a former…

  • Libel news 3

    Student feedback is what keeps us educationalists going. Here’s a little from one course blog on the ‘Dow Jones Defence’ panel that we ran on Monday – the first time the journalists who broke the Jameel story had come together to discuss it publicly. I’ll keep it short: I thought the Jameel panel today was…

  • Mehlman vs. McAuliffe 2

    The RNC’s Ken Mehlman and former DNC head Terry McAuliffe were back on Today this morning. McAuliffe was standing in for Howard Dean. This time they were a little better behaved, but no less enlightening. [CJR]

  • BBC Ambridge: ultra-local news

    Everything that really need be said about the 15,000th episode of Britain’s longest running radio soap, The Archers, is said by Rob Hanks in the Indy. But if you want to know what ultra-local news may one day sound like, have a listen to community events in Ambridge, and be very afraid.