Category: Media and Journalism

This one via An Oasis. Some good tips on writing, on more of the creative side it seems. Worth a look.

Just when I am making progress in my reading, Foreign Policy pops through the letter box, and this edition includes essays headlined as the ‘World’s Most Dangerous Ideas’. The essays are by Paul Davies, Frank Fukuyama, Eric Hobsbawm, Martha Nussbaum, Samantha Power, Alice Rivlin, Robert Wright and Fareed Zakaria. It also has an essay by…

An Oasis points to an interesting piece of media analysis. I also came across this good media weblog today.

Over at Irish Eagle some bad fact checking is reported, in the Independent no less. Conor Cruise O’Brien noted: The present Governor of California George Kazantsakis, was elected in 2002 with the active support of President Bush, who campaigned for him in the State, and toured the State with the new Governor immediately after his…

Mark Steyn concludes his latest article in the Spectator with the following: The President has to be a terminator: he has to terminate regimes and structures that support Islamist terrorism. And, if every bigshot associated with the cause winds up like Uday and Qusay, the ideology will become a lot less fashionable. All these girlie-man…

Paul Krugman complains of US media’s near obsession with puff rather than hard policy facts. He also points out some interesting differences in how some politicians are represented differently, usually along party lines. Kevin Drum also talks about it, and gives more links to related stories. Well, I’ve been reading 60 days’ worth of transcripts…

Something is calling me to write a fisking of Steyn’s latest diatribe in the Spectator. Not only because of the sheer nonsense that he seems to come up with, but I did read the article he refers to some weeks ago, and even mentioned it to Dick O’Brien at the blog party earlier this month.…

Paul points to a list of memos over at media matters for America. It provides an insight into the thinking behind the scenes at Fox News. What worries me is whether similar shaningans prevail at its sister station Sky News, or Sky News Ireland. Could there be a UK version of FOX News Senior Vice…

And the funniest headline of the week award goes to: El Reg, for this corker: Mobile phones rot your balls: Hello Moto. Goodbye Mojo I actually laughed out loud to that one.

After a long gap, a published piece in the New Statesman today. I attended a roundtable discussion in Belfast last week, discussing the future of broadband in Northern Ireland. All very interesting – it is a region on the up and up. I really have not been writing as much as I should, but writing…