adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • ‘Reconstructions’ and illustrations

    Tonight, the lead item on the BBC 10 was the story of a young girl who was tormented by her parents. It began with a ‘reconstruction.’ From the ‘reconstruction’ you might have thought the child lived in a privileged, well-decorated home. Is that right? My hunch is that it would be quite, quite wrong. On…

  • The Belfast Telegraph has a TV service. Indie house Macmillan is providing it. Style is a conventional local news bulletin. Nice try, but again it’s ‘smart idea meets mundane execution’ time.

  • Charity vs skepticism in the cockpit

    I don’t know what to think about the Sun‘s ‘friendly fire’ scoop. On the one hand, it’s a great coup, on the other hand it’s quite possibly a cynical piece of official news management. Roy Greenslade makes a good case for the former point. The only evidence for the latter claim is circumstantial. So how…

  • So who at MoD decided to leak the cockpit video to the Sun‘s Tom Newton Dunn? Don’t expect an inquiry anytime soon.