adrian monck

Month: May 2007

  • First rule of terrorism?

    Don’t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show – five news (we couldn’t afford capital letters) – and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That’s when someone from…

  • Paid content: the Dow Jones bid

    The value of financial journalism and high-quality journalism is that you can charge for it. Rupert MurdochHere’s the best take on the Dow Jones bid, written back in January 2007 by David Warsh: It is the ticker and its history that is the secret of why the On-line WSJ makes so much money on the…

  • News Corp bids for WSJ

    I hate to blow my own trumpet and say you read it here first…but back on January 2 I was repeating a prediction from the LA Times predicting this. Obviously I wasn’t making clear when it might happen, the sums involved, and was simply passing on something I’d read. But hey, for a moment I…

  • MI5’s new "openness"

    Democracy is a distraction from the business of government. Arguably it disrupts administration, panders to interest groups, elevates those unfit for office – and yet it’s what we’ve got, to be abandoned only in extremis. So when Britain’s Interior Minister rejects calls for an investigatory public inquiry, on the grounds it would divert “energies and…