adrian monck

Category: Journalists

  • Licence fee fallout

    Something I wrote for Press Gazette: Ever seen the balloon dance? It goes like this. Unattractive naked man has three balloons that move from one extremity to the other to cover his embarrassment. BBC One is a bit like that. The balloons are news bulletins. What would happen if you popped them? Now the deal…

  • Attack of the demablogs

    Here’s a recent piece from Press Gazette: Were I writing a demablog – a polemical rant against the MSM (the ‘mainstream media’) – I’d probably start the piece like this: Journalists risking their lives to report on the world’s most dangerous places now have a new enemy. They risk being shot in the back by…

  • Quoting Harold Evans

    In case you wondered where the quote comes from, it’s from Sir Harold Evans’ memorial address for reporter David Blundy (1945-89). It’s worth reading in full:

  • By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept…

    “years ago we were hungry, oppressed, living in a big prison and hopeless but we had each other … we were more than friends WE WERE BROTHERS and agreed to hate the government of Saddam … i know we are still brothers but we can’t visit each other home now and most of us can…