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Is there a media campaign against UKIP?
Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…
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Local news online
The UK’s Westmorland Gazette files a report on a burning chair and gets 74 comments. California’s Lodi News-Sentinel has this: Local jazz musician injured after leaping from burning motor homeBy Layla BohmNews-Sentinel Staff WriterLast updated: Saturday, Feb 24, 2007 – 07:02:48 am PST A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor…
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Print-thinking
Gerry McGovern is no stranger to the cheeze puff. He mainly deals in corporate web-sites and ‘killer apps’ but beneath the website hype he’s making all the right noises: What is print-thinking? Print lends itself to length and to economies of scale. It’s not that much more expensive to print a 120-page report than a…
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Tactics or strategy in running orders?
I‘ve lavished praise on CBS News‘ Public Eye site before. A recent post raises the influence of demographics on the content of the Evening News, and the dilemmas that poses – always, but always, in second-guessing story selection. My personal view is that it’s a mistake to break newscasts down story by story. You’re much…