Sal Esposito: the mythical story of the cat and the jury summons
Even if you followed the news only lightly in 2011, the chances are you can across the story of how a cat received a jury summons in the US. … Read the full post »
Here are my posts about the state of journalism and how it is carried out, mainly focusing on the UK but with the occasional piece about other countries too.
For more on the topic, see my book Bad News: what the headlines don’t tell us.
Even if you followed the news only lightly in 2011, the chances are you can across the story of how a cat received a jury summons in the US. … Read the full post »
The story of how Fox News approached coronavirus is not a happy story, as Trevor Noah and the Daily Show recount. … Read the full post »
From The Guardian’s rolling liveblog on coronavirus comes this unfortunate error. … Read the full post »
Listen to find out how you can make sense of the news all around us, why I look back on my daily commute in years past with amazement and how I came to write Bad News. … Read the full post »
William Thomas Stead was not only Britain’s first investigative journalist, he also epitomised the profession’s strengths and dark side within his own career. … Read the full post »
My reaction on first seeing copies of Rolf Dobelli’s Stop Reading The News was a mix of fear and excitement. … Read the full post »
Following the Boris Johnson – Jeremy Corbyn TV election debate, YouGov carried out a super-quick poll of people who watched the debate to judge the winner. … Read the full post »
This week we’ve had two “exclusives” in the media about the Liberal Democrats which aren’t quite exclusive… … Read the full post »
Time for a complaint to the regulator: “I would like to make a complaint about a story produced by the Telegraph in print and online…” … Read the full post »
It would also of course run completely against the media habit of seeing newspapers as the daily agenda setters whose choices need reporting. … Read the full post »