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Freedom of speech and the media
Richard Sambrook posts at the End of Journalism, on freedom of speech. (There’s a hat-tip to dear old Simon ‘Cue’ Cumbers, among others.) He ends his piece: …if you doubt whether accurate, impartial, independent journalism can make a difference, you should recognise that some of theforces opposed to it don’t doubt it for a second.…
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TV news viewing
UK comms regulator Ofcom published its latest report on public service broadcasting back in March: Average annual hours of viewing to news, across all individuals in the UK, dipped sharply in 2006 to 91 hours, from 98 hours in 2005. However, this is likely to be in part due to a decrease in the overall…
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What the blogosphere looks like…
[Care of Data Mining]
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The problem of informants: Kazi Rahman
A while back the BBC reported on the conviction of Kazi Nurur Rahman. Rahman, you’ll recall, tried to buy Uzis, RPGs and SAM-7s for terrorist purposes. The Beeb’s report noted that: When interviewed by police Rahman claimed he was working for MI5, who had recruited him 10 years earlier. But, in pleading guilty to attempting…