adrian monck

Category: Media

  • TV news critics

    The Daily Mail has yet to replace its TV critic, and looks likely to leave the slot empty according to Peter Preston. Take a look at two recent pieces of critical work on TV news and go figure… Cotswold Life pin-up Adrian Gill – on the right (yes, literally and figuratively) – reviews Al Jazeera…

  • Sunday guest booking

    Stoke Newington GP, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, was on 5 Live this morning responding to the Government’s plan to survey 5 million patients. [BBC] Now I know it’s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another…

  • Security experts…

    From the BBC: Security analyst Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who met Mr Litvinenko several times, said the media focus on the Kremlin was “lazy” and bore the hallmarks of a John Le Carre novel. “We have to put this in a historical context,” he said. “Litvinenko’s last job within the FSB was heading up the anti-corruption unit…

  • Marash interview

    Interview with AJE‘s Dave Marash on AFP. I wouldn’t call it the most informative thing I’ve read, except for his observation about AJE’s low story count. This can either be interpreted as longer = deeper or slower = duller depending on your attention span and the quality of the reporter.