Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

The newspaper is dying, shouting about "responsible publishers" and "conscientious advertisers" doesn't change a thing

›
It's an old joke that the point of journalism is to fill in the gaps between the adverts. And there has always been a tension, sometim...
1 comment:
Thursday, 11 April 2019

Why you should never trust a journalist.

›
There has, quite rightly, been criticism of New Statesman Deputy Editor, George Eaton for his hatchet job on conservative philosopher, Roge...
Wednesday, 13 February 2019

No we don't need state-funded journalists, we need content people want to buy

›
Local newspapers are dying. This death is accompanied by a great wailing from the usual sources who argue (without really explaining why) t...
5 comments:
Friday, 17 November 2017

On safari with the poverty tourists

›
Since the Brexit vote in Britain and Trump's election in the USA, there has developed a genre of journalism that involves the writer de...
Tuesday, 20 December 2016

On the manufacture of fake news

›
I know others have commented on this but it's pretty important that we understand that fake news is not simply something manufactured by...
3 comments:
Monday, 8 June 2015

Journalists and maths - things that don't really mix. The case of the boozy MPs.

›
It's from the Sun so all the gory details (doubtless given the source more of the former than the latter) are behind Rupert'...
1 comment:
Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Thou shall not suffer a witch to live - even when she's innocent

›
The acquittal of Rebekah Brooks: Mrs Brooks was found not guilty of four charges including conspiring to hack phones, making corrupt ...
1 comment:
Saturday, 2 February 2013

More on the death of journalism

›
**** With our breath bated we waited, What could it be? What terrible act would bring down the minister - departmental failure, corruption...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Is Lord Leveson stupid?

›
**** He's certainly giving a good impression : The competition from bloggers and tweeters, "may encourage unethical and potent...
1 comment:
Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Labour's still wedded to the license state

›
**** The bizarre polity that is modern India was - under its then perennial Congress Party rule - described as the 'license raj" ...
Thursday, 28 April 2011

The Guardian are in it for the money, you know!

›
Yesterday the Guardian, behaving exactly as you would expect a struggling business to behave, shut down its ‘Guardian Local’ operation – o...
2 comments:
Tuesday, 17 November 2009

I blame it on Paxman....

›
. This morning I heard: Angela Rippon interviewed on dementia and Alzheimer ’s Disease And... A Dutch sports reporter being asked about a b...
1 comment: