Blog posts tagged "Media"

July 19, 2011 6:51 am 47 Comments

"No one knows where it would end... Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers... London?"

July 5, 2011 2:38 pm 110 Comments

"This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life - politics, policing, and media ethics - and potential conspiracies between several of them."

May 20, 2010 8:23 am 46 Comments

In a hurry - this morning I have to give a lecture to the Westminster Media Forum and am still thinking about what I need to say...but Europe is on my mind.

December 11, 2009 5:18 pm 16 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the Tiger Woods story.

September 30, 2009 11:40 am No Comments

The Sun’s associate editor, Trevor Kavanagh has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch was central to the Sun’s decision to switch horses in British politics. Should we care?

September 24, 2009 11:05 am No Comments

Block yer ears. Shut yer eyes. Krishnan and I and our able friend Mara Carlyle, are in preparation for tonight’s Newsroom’s Got Talent competition (no danger of any of us winning – we’re just ensuring that we can actually appear at all at Vinopolis in the Borough Market). It’s a contest between the BBC, Sky, [...]

September 3, 2009 4:22 pm No Comments

So Terry Wogan considers newscasters as “self-important” and the job a “piece of cake“. He’s quite right.. or nearly right. It’s a piece of cake so long as you can absent yourself from any involvement in generating the material that you are reading. The moment you combine newsreading with actual journalism, going after stories, trying [...]

September 2, 2009 12:54 pm No Comments

Soon after arriving on holiday in the States, I was standing in a friend’s kitchen in which the telly happened to be on. Suddenly an expensive-looking ad came on sporting a British cancer specialist, Karol Sikora. His message was simple: Britain’s NHS is a failure that the United States should not attempt to emulate.

July 28, 2009 6:59 pm 20 Comments

I was intrigued to hear BBC Radio News this morning using its own airwaves to “report” its decision to supply video content to a number of newspapers for free. Not a corporate announcement, of course, but a news story of sufficient importance to warrant its place midway through the main bulletin during the peak period [...]

May 1, 2009 10:49 am No Comments

I have had the delightful experience of visiting the piston-less, wire-less, valve-less, transistor-less headquarters of Google UK. Yes, I’ve been right inside www.google.co.uk. And it is a quite extraordinary experience, verging on cultish. But very benign.