Murdoch Jr. was invited to speak at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV festival and took the opportunity to champion a free media market and take a stab at the Beeb & the regulatory organisations in the UK.
Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s Communications Director/Spin Master, is having a difficult time distancing himself from the Clive Goodman phone-tapping scandal.
Grand old Guardian dog, Nick Davies, eats dogs in his book, Flat Earth News, where he exposes the idiotic ways of sheep journalism. He does a brilliant job: first, he avoids falling into too many conspiracy theories along the way (This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s just a mess, p. 153) – even dispels a few – and, second, he admits that he can be wrong. This is the basis for a sound analysis of, well, anything.
Now, I am a little disappointed that no one has even attempted to throw the suffix ‘-gate’ to the MP’s expense claim scandal, so I, Lone Ranger, am going to singlehandedly start using the term MPsExpensesGate here.
The Evening Standard has been struggling against the aggressively distributed freesheets, London Lite & London Paper, but is now rebranding, re-launching, re-trying backed by a healthy stack of rubbles (aka Alexander Lebedev). Like any sound recovery, the patient has to accept it has a problem, before apologising, crawling in the dirt while begging for forgiveness; [...]