Tag: Andrew Gilligan

  • Beyond Trust…

    A new book, Beyond Trust picks up some of the issues raised in Can You Trust The Media? Here’s Kevin Marsh, siding with Andrew Gilligan, in viewing the book as nihilistic: Journalism’s journey – in Professor Larry Sabato’s (1991) description – from ‘lapdog, through watchdog to junkyard dog’ with all that entails in loss of…

  • Arguing against Nick Davies

    British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms…