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Category: Media and Journalism

  • Foreign Policy cover

    The latest issue of FP has a catchy cover, I like it…

  • Joe Duffy loses it

    The show today was all about the Willie O’Dea photos in todays papers – but half way through Liveline Joe Duffy took a call from a member of the public, and discussed a particular case recently of a man being shot dead in Carlow. Start listening around the 36.41 mark, it’s the first time I…

  • Juan Cole on Mark Steyn

    Juan Cole does a far better job taking Mark Steyn’s argument apart than I could hope to. Here’s a nice exerpt: Steyn wants to create a 1300-year struggle between Catholic France and the Muslims going back to Tours. This way of thinking is downright silly. France in the 19th century was a notorious ally of…

  • Village Magazine

    I hadn’t checked in a while, but Village have a redesigned website that actually has content now. The links seem to be permanent ones too. All of the content is free to read, but I imagine only subscribers will get full access to all the archives. I like the design too, all they need now…

  • Rory Carroll

    Rory Carroll missing in Baghdad? I hope he will be ok.

  • Freedom of the press in Dubai?

    A curious development given the bad state of press freedom in Dubai: Sheikh Mohammed, Dubai’s Crown Prince, has called for a new era of press freedom in the United Arab Emirates. In mid-October, he waxed poetic before 500 journalists at his palace, saying, “The UAE will continue to be an oasis of freedom, democracy and…

  • Carole Coleman: I wanted to slap him

    Following the publication of an article by Carole Coleman in the Sunday Times, there has been a recent upsurge in searches fo the video of the interview she did with George Bush last year. She has written a book about her time as Washington correspondent ala Mark Little. It is an interesting take on the…

  • Union agrees end to CBC dispute

    It’s over, at least for now. And it seems it’s all because of ice hockey. The media coverage was largely sympathetic to the locked-out employees, and towards the end of the dispute, worried Liberal government MPs, inundated by complaints from the public, applied very public political pressure on the management to end the dispute. In…

  • Use it or lose it

    It’s a showdown and CBC look like they could lose. SHORTLY before the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) locked out 5,300 of its 9,000 employees on August 15th, Michele Sparling, the management’s chief negotiator, declared: “This is the hill we will die on.â€? Seven weeks later, those words look ominous. Many of CBC’s most familiar faces…

  • New look Economist

    The Economist changed their website back on October 1st, and I do like what they have done with it. It’s not all scrunched to one side like it used to be, the lines are cleaner, and it’s much easier to navigate.