The Medialyser

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.

Is war unforeseeable? During an interview, Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster accidentally states that a proposed war in the Middle East is “unforeseeable”. The Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Malcolm Tucker, sends poor Foster through a shitstorm for abandoning the party line, but it is too late – Foster, and his hapless [...]