Media spin, 1966 vintage
During the 1966 general election campaign, Prime Minister Harold Wilson visited the Birmingham Rag Market for a public meeting… … 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.
During the 1966 general election campaign, Prime Minister Harold Wilson visited the Birmingham Rag Market for a public meeting… … Read the full post »
The Conservative manifesto launch demonstrated the same media handling mistake that many Lib Dem minister made early in coalition government. … Read the full post »
Squeezed by the BBC on one side and Wiktribune on the other, things could be about to get even tougher for many UK news outlets. … Read the full post »
From the aptly named Liarsville in Alaska comes this warning against rose-tinted views of how the newspaper industry used to be. … Read the full post »
It’s right that Jo Cox was a great campaigner for important causes. I just hope the media remembers that when ‘normal’ political news coverage returns. … Read the full post »
“It is not possible to estimate the number of eligible electors who were removed from the registers.” – Electoral Commission. But that didn’t stop the media reporting stories as if they knew how many people had been removed. … Read the full post »
In Following Farage Owen Bennett recounts in amusing detail, often with the mesmerising quality of watching a car crash, Ukip members again and again veer from preppy populism into disorganisation, offensiveness or both. … Read the full post »
The final data for the size of the electoral register at the election is in and it shows the media stories were misleading. … Read the full post »
Slow news trumps fast news if you want your news to be the full story and if you want accurate explanations. … Read the full post »
During the general election, I commented on how wise the BBC’s editorial approach to opinion polls looked. … Read the full post »