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Against the liberalocracy

  • 13 November 2008

The editor of the Daily Mail sees himself as a victim, desperately leading the defence of the values of the mass of decent people

The Real McCann Scandal

  • 23 October 2008
  • 32 comments

Brian Cathcart details how the British press set out to systematically destroy the parents of Madeleine McCann.

News hit by whiteout

  • 09 October 2008
  • 1 comment

The press is still in panicky denial over diversity and racism, as the coverage of Sir Ian Blair's departure shows

The market delivers bad news

  • 02 October 2008
  • 3 comments

If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all

Journalists: they can't live without us

  • 25 September 2008

Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better

Getting things right is not a luxury

  • 18 September 2008
  • 1 comment

In sacking most of its sub-editors, Express Newspapers is making a classic error. The job these people do is not an optional extra or an anachronism; it is integral

Get out the suntan lotion

  • 11 September 2008

Rain and floods mean a crisis for editors, a crisis of waffle. People are upset, but what can you say? Who can you blame? What does it mean?

The Asian policeman who got uppity

  • 04 September 2008
  • 9 comments

Tarique Ghaffur is claiming that he was discriminated against in the police service, and some in the right-wing press are not taking it well

Reading the political codes

  • 28 August 2008

How is it possible to find meaning in something a politician doesn't say? For the political correspondent, it is all in a day's work

To protect the innocent

  • 07 August 2008
  • 3 comments

Barry George was wrongly convicted in 2001 after the press, with the implicit blessing of the government, had destroyed what little reputation he may have had

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