adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • UK vs US news media

    On the media difference between Britain and America, from a former Brit who swapped the UK for Chicago. It has the ring of truth! The British are drowned in world news and current affairs like an oozing puss of global pain and suffering. It is almost as if the evening family meal can’t be served…

  • Cash for honours

    The injunction against the BBC has inspired all kinds of fevered speculation. This is the point where I sadly admit to not particularly caring about the story. Sure it’s a good Westminster yarn. Certainly it would have been a nice coup for Nick Robinson. But why exactly did the Attorney-General slap an injunction on the…

  • TV News 101 – it’s the erosion, stupid

    The tectonic plates are shifting. The NBC Nightly News, which has held the number one slot in U.S. network news for a decade, is being overhauled. A little history. Once CBS News had the lead with Walter Cronkite. Then Dan Rather took the CBS chair and kept the lead, but Rather couldn’t keep Cronkite’s audience…

  • Linking not plagiarising…

    I wrote a piece on attribution for Press Gazette that kicked off like this: The Times on Monday carried a story that appears to rely heavily on the work of a blogging journalist. It’s about the TV ‘phone con.’ Other papers too followed the story up. Nowhere is the journalist mentioned, referred or linked to.…