Volume 11, Number 4, 2000 |
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ContentsEditorial - Pimps or Pimpernels? 3John Ware - Panorama and the Omagh Atrocity 7 Barry Cox - Saving quality television 12 John Jackson - Marathon man – has typewriter, mobile phone and laptop 18 Ronald Stevens - Sliding standards at the Telegraph 25 Tessa Mayes - Submerging in “therapy news” 30 Jonathan Fenby - Working uneasily with Mr Kuok 37 David Nathan - Scrooges of the universe 47 Ivor Gaber - I accuse the press 51 Andrew Wasley - Doctoring the image 57 BOOK REVIEWSPeter Wilby on Alan Watkins 63Peter Thompson on bugging 67 Geoffrey Goodman on Paul Foot 70 Anthony Delano on investigative reporting 72 |
Editorial - Pimps or Pimpernels?So the new Millennium has begun, or to be strictly accurate it will be with us, officially, in a few weeks. Begun without any real sign of a diminution in the turbulence which has swept through the closing decade of the last century. To be sure it is a turbulence embracing every aspect of life on the global stage, with the media scene as just one example of change that could hardly have been imagined a mere 10 or 15 years ago... [Read full article]
John Ware - Panorama and the Omagh AtrocityGetting people out of jail who have been wrongly convicted has always been recognised as a journalistic pursuit very much in the public interest. By the same token, helping to lock up people who commit crimes as heinous as the Omagh bombing in which 29 men, women, children and babies were killed and more than 200 maimed and injured, is no less a proper role for public service broadcasting... [Read full article]
Tessa Mayes - Submerging in "therapy news"Is domestic news undergoing a crisis of identity? Ever since a BBC executive described Kate Adie's news report of the Dunblane tragedy in 1996 as too forensic, news reporting has focused increasingly on emotions. Now this trend has gone much further. Instead of a news reporter's starting point being facts and analysis about the outside world, people's inner lives and emotional reactions to events including the reporter's own dominate how events are perceived... [Read full article]
Ivor Gaber - I accuse the pressI’ve been involved in journalism for the best part of 30 years, mostly as a practitioner – including several years as an investigative reporter – but also as an educator. In both guises I have always taken it as a basic assumption that journalists in Britain operate under a range of restrictions that make the practice of their profession (or craft) more difficult than in most other liberal democracies... [Read full article]
Peter Wilby on Alan WatkinsThere are many good things in the Sunday newspapers (which is not the same thing as saying that they are good newspapers) but there is only one thing to which I unfailingly turn: Alan Watkins’s column in the Independent on Sunday. I do so, not because it adds to my stock of knowledge (though it sometimes does), but because of the writer’s unrivalled ear for the cadences of English prose, his wit and mischief and, above all, his refusal to take politicians as seriously as they take themselves... [Read full article]
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