Category: Media

  • Social surgery…

    “With your help, we will provide a friendly, safe, easy to use place on the Web … This is a place where you take the lead in telling your own story. … In return, we ask that you meet this character challenge: be a good citizen and exhibit community leadership qualities. It’s a simple and…

  • End of year reviews

    I make a brief guest appearance in Matt Cowans‘ review of news futures for Reuters. I’m not quite as apocalyptic as Michael Wolff was last weekend in The Observer: 2006 marked the end of news as we know it, the end of television as we know it, and, finally, the end of moguls as we…

  • Zac Goldsmith

    Trustafarian self-publisher and Conservative A-lister Zac Goldsmith, sitting on an estimated £300 million inheritance, ‘guest edited’ Today. Among Goldsmith’s ‘contributions’: Is cricket “nicer” than football? Zac Goldsmith asked Piers Morgan to chair a discussion between former England football captain Gary Lineker and the former England fast bowler Angus Fraser. Ho-hum sports talking point though it…

  • Sky News – ‘The Day The Whale Came To London’

    Watching Sky News tonight (8pm), I’m reminded of this famous post: Schedule. Fill. Someone?