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Trust in the media
In 1972 the Roper Centre for Public Opinion Research in the United States began asking: In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the news media – such as newspapers, T.V. (television), and radio – when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly – a great deal, a fair…
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The authentic voice of bloggers…
From BBC NEWS Technology page… From Emily Turrettini’s blog… The authentic voice of Variety!
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Rupert Murdoch: a lesson from history?
Press Gazette picks up on the media side of Tony Blair’s former comms chief, Alastair Campbell’s diaries. One of the more interesting revelations concerns the impact of Rupert Murdoch on his editors. July 1995 [Meeting Rupert Murdoch and addressing News Corp editors in Sydney] “I got a fascinating glimpse of the way editors work around…
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Claud Cockburn on proprietors
The humbug and hypocrisy of the Press begin only when newspapers pretend to be impartial or servants of the public. And this only becomes dangerous as well as laughable when the public is fool enough to believe it.“It seemed to me that a newspaper is always a weapon in somebody’s hands, and I never could…