Posted by chrysadag | Jul 21, 2011 | Commentaries |
By Martin Conboy Shock horror, the popular tabloids have offended public taste and contravened what passes as journalistic integrity. So far, so unremarkable. Events at the News of the World may be the grossest in recent times,...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jul 15, 2011 | Commentaries |
By Rachael Craufurd Smith The extraordinary events surrounding the closure of the News of the World and the withdrawal by News Corporation of its bid to take full control of BSkyB have cast a light on how journalistic...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jul 13, 2011 | Commentaries |
Today’s Parliamentary debate about Rupert Murdoch – “hanging the Great Satan out to dry” was the way one writer put it – was the day of come-uppance that MPs have been eagerly awaiting ever since the newspapers shamed them...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jul 12, 2011 | Commentaries |
By Jackie Harrison When James Murdoch made his MacTaggart speech entitled ‘The Absence of Trust’ in August 2009 he criticized regulatory constraints in the broadcasting sector for creating unaccountable institutions such as the...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jul 11, 2011 | Commentaries |
By Ralph Negrine The events surrounding the demise of the News of the World has focused our minds, once more, on what should be considered legitimate and permissible practice in journalism and, indeed, in the pursuit of ‘the...
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