Category: Journalism

  • Journalism, apathy, and distrust

    Checking out Adrienne Russell’s review of Charlie Beckett‘s excellent SuperMedia, I came across this nugget:

  • BBC guidance on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

    Cryptome carries an email apparently sent to BBC staff over reporting of councils and their use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act:

  • links for 2008-07-08

    Murdoch Lifer Mans Main Street Journal | Advertising Age “Mathematical equations do not work in media,” [Hinton] said. What works in media is: If the reader and the advertiser don’t like what they’re seeing, then they ain’t going to be coming back.” (tags: news-corp wall-street-journal) Is PropPublica’s shaky start an omen? | MiamiHerald.com [W]hy was…

  • How to engineer an Anglo-Russian rapprochement

    Arrange a meeting at a summit. Prior to the meeting, ensure government officials drop reassuring hints about the need to improve relations: Russia now poses its biggest threat to Britain since the Cold War, according to security sources. MI5 fears that Britain has been swamped with spies since the breakdown of relations over the tit-for-tat…