Category: Journalists

  • Impartiality – the BBC’s imaginary friend

    The BBC report on impartiality is out. Nick Robinson celebrates with a metaphoric-trope-fest from Wembley. Politics – it’s like football. But no free kicks. Or offside rule. Or roasting. Next week from Wimbledon. Politics. It’s like tennis…Then another correspondent tells us that hopelessness and despair push people to extremism. What hope centrism? I despair! But…

  • Facebook frenzy: revealing your sources

    In the media rush to embrace Facebook (I’m no different), one thing strikes me as potentially dangerous for journalists. That’s sources. Facebook networks allow you to track all kinds of friendships, and when it comes to information they could quickly throw up potential sources.By way of example, I was going to blog about something typically…

  • Remember when CBS really stood for something?

    We come in peace, newslings.

  • Middle East graphics ideas

    Yes, it really is from the New York Post. Could you make it up? No, you couldn’t. Would you want to? And Before Tony Blair calls up, it is running in the comment section…[HT: Gawker]