-
Hospital pic "doctored"
-
Andrew Gilligan: hero of journalism…
Andrew Gilligan takes one more chance to defend himself at CiF: Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for [Alastair Campbell], with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster. If his aim in taking us on was to disprove my story about the sexed-up…
-
Off topic: a tale of two politicians
Two politicians, both of whom I had a chance to see close up at university. For Labour, I present Dave Miliband, JCR President of Corpus Christi (I was his oppo at Exeter). We both represented the most over-privileged electorate in the world (he more conscientiously than me). For the Conservatives, Boris Johnson, president of the…
-
Two takes on news, and one on journalism
Three quotes to chew on, one from soon-to-be Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff: You can’t put this too starkly: the news as a pastime, as a form of media, is vaudeville. The news business — our crowd of overexcited people narrating events as they happen — is going out of business. This from a guy called…