adrian monck

Tag: UK journalism

  • Grade news at 10.30pm

    Melvyn Bragg rather outshone and outluvvied ITV News business editor Mark Eddo at 10.30pm. Eddo didn’t mention the line from Grade about looking at the news: I think news is very very important for a big network. And it is very interesting that in the competitive situation in America, although they’ve cut back the investment…

  • TV News critics 2

    Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…

  • Sound and fury…

    According to Manchester University’s Piers Robinson – that’s him on the right – British media coverage of the Iraq War was not “autonomous in its approach to the official narratives and justifications for the war in Iraq.” Good work Piers! That should render your findings fairly inaccessible. Want more? Coverage of the war was narrated…

  • Stern contrast

    Not often you see British journalism lauded over American, but the UK media’s cheerleading for the Stern review gets two thumbs up in the Columbia Journalism Review. Click on to suspend your disbelief…[CJR]