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Will security journalism show its teeth?
How hard will security correspondents push MI5 on the issues highlighted by the Fertiliser trial? The Sun puts the case for the prosecution. The Telegraph‘s Home Affairs editor, Philip Johnston (whose personal advocacy on behalf of the security services is a matter of record) has the case for the defence. So will this be a…
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Is there a media campaign against UKIP?
Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…
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Charity vs skepticism in the cockpit
I don’t know what to think about the Sun‘s ‘friendly fire’ scoop. On the one hand, it’s a great coup, on the other hand it’s quite possibly a cynical piece of official news management. Roy Greenslade makes a good case for the former point. The only evidence for the latter claim is circumstantial. So how…
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The Future of News Media
To the Westminster Media Forum to talk about The Future of News Media. Hopefully, for the students, there is one. With charter review complete and the licence fee about to be set, no-one from the BBC is in attendance. But with a huge percentage of the jobs in broadcast and online news being in said…