adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Irwin Stelzer, big shot?

    Much speculation in the Guardian around lively septuagenarian Irwin Stelzer, and the influence he does or doesn’t carry. Having just returned from the land of the free, I think it’s worth recalling that Stelzer ranks only modestly in the neo-con league, behind such luminaries as Norman Podhoretz. Last Thursday night, I went to hear Norman…

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  • The future of the evening news – grey but rosy?

    In New York I managed to catch up with an old chum in network news and get a peak at the new NBC/MSNBC set (which is pretty impressive, especially for the back office co-ord stuff), and which will also bring the news channel from Secaucus, NJ to Rockefeller Plaza. So NBC are spending but does…

  • The Third Person Effect

    In 1983, Phillips Davison wrote a paper called The Third Person Effect in Communication. Here is his hypothesis: …individuals who are members of an audience that is exposed to a persuasive communication (whether or not this communication is intended to be persuasive) will expect the communication to have a greater effect on others than on…