Volume 12, Number 4, 2001 |
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ContentsEditorial - War — the great educator 3Stephen Evans - The biggest story of my life 7 Anthony Loyd - Cleanliness the first casualty of war reporting 12 Recollections of September 11 14 Ronald Stevens - Kate, and the call that didn't come 28 Paul Routledge - It may pay — but journalism it ain't 31 Cal McCrystal - Yvonne Ridley wasn't the first 36 Clayton Goodwin - Sport, reggae and the Daily Gleaner 44 Tom Welsh - Can our courts handle human rights? 49 BOOK REVIEWSGerald Kaufman MP on the Press Association 55Ian Hargreaves on Robin Oakley 58 David Shayler on Dame Stella Rimington 61 Michael Leapman on Rupert Murdoch 68 Joshua Rozenberg on court reporting 71 Cal McCrystal on the PCC 74 Anthony Delano on global news 78 
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Editorial - War — the great educatorWar is a great educator — for everybody. Each subsequent war, if not each battle, almost always comes as a unique experience to the Generals and even the Field Marshals as it does to all Governments. No one is immune from this learning process: it applies to all leaders, Presidents, Prime Ministers and even editors and spin doctors. Once war breaks out everyone is thrown onto life's learning curve. No matter how learned and experienced the “experts” regard themselves, war has a nasty habit of producing the unexpected... [Read full article]
Stephen Evans - The biggest story of my lifeReporters obviously wear many hats at the same time. They have to do straight reporting where their own beliefs don't intrude; they get involved in the events on which they're reporting; they live among the people about whom and to whom they report. Being in the World Trade Centre when the first plane struck put me in fear of my life – although not at the moment of impact. It offered me the biggest story ever likely to come my way – and one set on an island with all tunnels, bridges and airports closed to outside reporters for four days... [Read full article]
Recollections of September 11A range of journalists, some of whom are on the BJR editorial board, provide their personal recollections of September 11... [Read full article]
Paul Routledge - It may pay — but journalism it ain'tDuring the long, slow weeks of the summer parliamentary recess, enlivened only by the sex, lies 'n rape scandal swirling round Neil and Christine Hamilton, lobby correspondents spent an absurd amount of time discussing the job prospects of one of their own. Where was Desmond McCartan, veteran political editor of the Belfast Telegraph, going? Opinion was virtually unanimous that he had been appointed head of information at the Northern Ireland office... [Read full article]
David Shayler on Dame Stella RimingtonIn the preface to Open Secret, Dame Stella tells us that she began the book in August 1998. This was a particularly poignant time for me. While she was fretting over her first draft, I was in La Santé Prison in Paris's 14th arrondissement. I was there at the behest of the British authorities because I had had the temerity to use legal methods to alert the authorities to the existence of the Gaddafi Plot... [Read full article]
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