by admin | Dec 21, 2016 | BBC, Europe, Press, Public Service Broadcasting
I have just finished reading ‘Unleashing Demons’ by by Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s former spin doctor (Director of Politics and Communications to give him his official title, a position which he held from September 2011 until Cameron’s...
by admin | Dec 12, 2016 | media ownership, media plurality, Press
On 16 February 2013 in my blog ‘Journalists trusted as little as bankers’ I reported the results of a Ipso/MORI poll which reported that journalists and bankers were trusted by just 21% of the people. The bottom group at 18% was taken by politicians. You...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Campaigns, Press
The Press Recognition Panel (PRP), established by Parliament following the Leveson report published in November 2012, has approved IMPRESS’s application for recognition under the Royal Charter. Meeting on Tuesday in west London |(opposite the BBC) the Panel...
by admin | Jan 15, 2016 | Press
Just in case you thought it was all over, Rebekah Brooks is facing a legal tussle over over new allegations that phone hacking was “endemic” when she was editor of The Sun, according to an article in The Independent (14 January). The Independent’s James Cusick,...
by admin | Jun 17, 2015 | Campaigns, international, Press, Turkey
I was unable to go to Turkey last week for yet another round in the OdaTV trial, held on 12 June (see previous blog ‘OdaTV trials – more of the same’ dated 1 February 2015) but the European Federation of Journalists was represented by Patrick Kamenka from France. Last...
by admin | Apr 30, 2015 | media ownership, media plurality, Press
This well-known work by Robert Louis Stevenson is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called “split personality”, referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one...
