adrian monck

Month: March 2007

  • Trust and the media

    Trust, as an issue for the media, never seems to be far from the news itself. Here’s Reuters‘ exec Geert Linnebank: We will always need a place for a news organization whose watchword is trust. Trust will be the differentiator in the new media dynamic. Your independence and impartiality will mark you out. According to…

  • Do African governments deserve to be taken at face value?

    The news out of Zimbabwe in the Times has a friend of mine in Angola complaining: …the paper fails to point out that the Angolan government has denied this story as ‘a gross lie.’ If the US government made such a denial would the Times omit it? … The Angolan authorities might not be telling…

  • Ofcom’s PSB report – signifying nothing

    In the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like media regulation. UK TV, excepting the BBC, is regulated by Ofcom. You can read their annual report on public service broadcasting here. The report is what a regulator’s report that didn’t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is…

  • Journalism and advertorial

    In 1896, William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal endorsed William Jennings Bryan for president. Advertisers deserted the paper in droves, and Hearst lost a lot of money. But New York was a rapidly growing city in a rapidly growing country. There was no radio, no television, no Internet. Hearst was able to withstand the pressure…