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An anarchist on the media…
Debates over the media have the habit of sounding awfully familiar. At the same time, old forgotten arguments shine a light on things we have stopped worrying about, mostly through familiarity rather than any more compelling reasons. One of the most enjoyable early critics of the media was Victor S. Yarros (1865-1956), a journalist and…
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Rupert Murdoch: leftist
Accuracy in Media, a website devoted to correcting media bias, doesn’t just reserve its ire for liberal outlets. Rupert Murdoch gets it in the neck too, for endorsing new Australian PM Kevin Rudd: One Australian observer of Murdoch told AIM that “Murdoch’s helping of leftist candidates is no surprise to longtime readers of The Australian.”…
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News At Ten: four nights only confirmed
ITV Exec Chairman Michael Grade has confirmed that News At Ten will only run four nights a week. He told the House of Lords Communications Committee, “we are going to go four nights a week at ten o’clock on ITV, we will go head to head with BBC1 and the audience will make their choice.”…
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Attack Andrew Gilligan and you attack journalism itself!
The former BBC reporter behind the Hutton Inquiry, Andrew Gilligan, was lecturing in Bristol recently [HT: Roy Greenslade]. Regular readers will know my thoughts on Gilligan. Gallingly, I share many of the concerns he articulates (I say “articulates” but you can judge for yourself here). I say “gallingly” because Gilligan frames those concerns as part…