adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Rogue Mail

    “It’s a cultural landmark, but as readers drift away, is there room for more than one celebrity on Paul’s Daily Mail?”There’s much for the professional journalist to admire in the Daily Mail, and much for the professional human being to despise. Michael Leapman‘s snide piece on page 15, laying into Kirsty Young falls squarely into…

  • Daniel Pearl’s dad on Al Jaz English

    Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl writes on Al Jazeera English. The thrust of his piece is an attack on Al Jaz Arabic for airing Sunni cleric Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi‘s “Sharia and Life” programme. He uses this forum to preach his new morality to millions of Arabic-speaking viewers, including Hamas operatives,…

  • Great campaigning column from Rubén Rosario of the St Paul Pioneer Press…

  • B@£$%cks to bowling…

    I have been wading through the works of lone-bowling theorist Robert Putnam for reasons too dull to share. Putnam’s worthy, weighty tome – Bowling Alone – makes its point by the pound. Joy then to read a journalist who pops Putnam’s balloon in one short, pointy article. Step forward Nick Lemann.