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Transnational news traffic
So is online helping British journalism colonise the US? FishbowlNY’s take on a Guardian piece certainly makes it look that way: # The Daily Mail saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01/07.# The Guardian’s traffic increased by 25.5%.# Rupert Murdoch’s highbrow/lowbrow Times of London and The Sun saw traffic up 38%…
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Fin-in-the-Watergate: crisis of trust rocks tabloid news
The Sun got itself well and truly stung. Us TV types look forward to a full independent inquiry into how the paper was fooled and how it carried the hoax forward to its readers. OK, so we won’t be holding our breath.
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Royal trailer trash
Stephen Lambert, the magnificently monikered Chief Creative Officer at TV production company RDF, is carrying the can for the Queen promo. Last Friday he offered to resign, but David Frank (the DF in RDF) is waiting for the BBC inquiry to run its course (or get going even). When not offering to resign, Lambert is…
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Royal reporting 101: contrast and compare…
Whilst the BBC is apologizing for misleading people…