Category: Journalism

  • Just added Adam MacQueen to my subscription list. Recommended, if somewhat occasional.

  • Liberal bias at the BBC

    Finking out your colleagues takes guts. So who is the Bernie Goldberg of the BBC? Bernie, in case you don’t know, was a CBS News reporter who filed from the personal finance frontline. He found it convenient to take CBS’s money while all the time accumulating evidence of its liberal lies (this labour of love…

  • Online video on UK news sites

    Here’s a piece I wrote recently for the BBC‘s College of Journalism site. Andy Dickinson has some interesting – and more extensive – posts on the same topic. Approaching the Telegraph’s clean, attractive new website video jumps straight out at you and starts playing. It’s a couple of comedians. They’re having a laugh. On behalf…

  • Edward Tufte

    Edward Tufte has a new book out. If you’re not familiar with his work on the visual display of information check out his analysis of one of the Powerpoint slides delivered by NASA scientists investigating damage to the space shuttle Columbia. You may never use Powerpoint again. His work is especially useful for journalists interested…