Robert Shone on August 31, 2010 1 Comment
Why is the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry ignoring the spilt blood?
Editor's Pick, Media
“Bogus parallels”: Donald Macintyre responds to Medialens
David Edwards — August 9, 2010 0 Comments
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in response to biased journalism when emboldened by the realisation that they are not alone in their concerns?
Media
Disbelieving the Wiki leak
Mahir Ali — July 27, 2010 1 Comment
-What makes this intriguing is the implication that some of the WikiLeaks information was new even to the White House. That’s unlikely, of course. And the message to Pakistan was supplemented by a decidedly more strident diatribe against the leaks, on the basis that they could compromise military operations – even though there is no reason to doubt that WikiLeaks and the three publications involved took care not to publicize any material that could endanger lives
Media
Freedom of Information is the Big Lie
Robert Webb — July 27, 2010 0 Comments
Thanks to Wikileaks, the power of the internet and newspapers like the Guardian, we now have some kind of truth about the war in Afghanistan. A truth that, if we gave it more than a moment’s thought in our busy lives, we probably could have guessed for ourselves.
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Tony Blair: Greasing his way through the Middle East with the Indy
David Edwards — July 20, 2010 0 Comments
More than six weeks after our initial challenge to the Independent’s Donald Macintyre, we are still waiting for a response.
Media
Jon Snow v Zac Goldsmith: Those missing Tweets
Tim Ireland — July 19, 2010 17 Comments
Last Friday, on July 16, Zac Goldsmith appeared on Channel 4 news in a spectacular car-crash of an interview with Jon Snow. If you’ve not watched it yet, I highly recommend that you do, not least because watching this and then reading through some of the reactions from the right will help you to better understand what it means when certain Conservatives assure you that so-and-so ‘destroyed’ or ‘exposed’ an opponent, or that such-and-such a blogger/journalist is ‘vile’ and/or a ‘liar’.
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How to deconstruct our lying media
Robert Shone — July 12, 2010 13 Comments
Media criticism comes in many forms – the approaches of meta-journalism, propaganda model and frame semantics work well together, but the semantics method is relatively new and urgently needs investing with time, effort and funding. Meanwhile, dogmatic applications of the propaganda model lead to intolerance and closed beliefs.
Media
Dubious polls: How accurate are Iraq’s death counts?
Robert Shone — June 30, 2010 2 Comments
The 2006 Lancet study on Iraqi deaths has received a 2010 “Top Ten Dubious Polling” award, following criticism of the study’s lead author by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Are these merely agenda-driven attacks on credible research, or do they represent accurate and justified criticisms?
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Welcome to RupertLand
Leah Borromeo — June 17, 2010 0 Comments
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation feels it’s time for its cousin BSkyB to join the family.
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Brothers-In-Arms: capitalism and corporate journalism
David Edwards — June 16, 2010 0 Comments
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned
Media
Journalists still have way to go embracing social media
Claire Wardle — May 27, 2010 2 Comments
Social media offers everything the authors suggest in terms of disseminating news, finding story ideas and sources, monitoring sentiments and discussions, researching individuals and organisations, and keeping up on topics of interests and participating in conversations with the audience, but I would argue it is far from universally accepted in newsrooms
Media
What does the UK coalition mean for the media?
Max Sydney Smith — May 24, 2010 0 Comments
The Conservative-Liberal coalition outlined their programme for government on Thursday. But what does it say, and not say, about the future of UK media?