Volume 13, Number 1, 2002 |
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ContentsEditorial - Beware — the Ides that March 3Donald Maitland - Power - without responsibility? 7 Nick Higham - America keeps its blinkers on 13 Bill Hagerty - The real crusader 19 Brian Jenner - Local journalism on the web 32 Magnus Linklater - The paper Maxwell — and Rothermere — killed 36 Roy Greenslade - So who needs newspapers? 41 John Lloyd - Invasion of the dancing girls 50 John Cole - He did it his way 54 Ray Boston - My kind of journalism 60 Amanda Hopkinson - Cudlipp returns to Cardiff 64 BOOK REVIEWSMichael Grade on Duke Hussey 69Douglas Brown on Jo Grimond 72 J.O. Baylen on George Newnes 74 
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Editorial - Beware — the Ides that MarchImagine a world without the BBC. Continue with that crazed thought and cast your imagination into a not-too-distant future, say five or six years. By then the global media and communication scene will make today’s tumult seem like a quiet Sunday in Bath. By then the odds are that “The Market” [that routine euphemism for elbowing everyone out of the way so that the you can get your heavy boot in your opponents’ doorway] might well have triumphed over public interest... [Read full article]
Bill Hagerty - The real crusaderMichael Foot rocks in his chair with glee as he points across the room to an open door: “You see that staircase there? That staircase was paid for by Cecil King, who was running the Daily Mirror at the time. And the kitchen downstairs was paid for by Murdoch. I am sorry Jill isn’t here to say it for herself, but she always thought the best thing Murdoch ever did was provide us with that kitchen.”... [Read full article]
Nick Higham - America keeps its blinkers onYou know it goes on, but when you encounter it first hand it’s still a shock. Arriving in Washington for a two-week stint helping out in the BBC bureau at the height of the Afghan war, I thought I knew what to expect as a journalist operating in the Land of the Free and the First Amendment. Even so, the torrent of information, the deluge of facts, the tidal wave of briefings and press conferences that flood into newsrooms in America was simply staggering. This is a society which really does take freedom of information seriously... [Read full article]
Roy Greenslade - So who needs newspapers?It should have been a year of booming newspaper sales. After all, the stories got progressively bigger and more sensational throughout 2001: foot and mouth disease swept Britain’s farms, Labour won its second successive general election by a landslide, and New York suffered an unprecedented attack, triggering the so-called war on terrorism... [Read full article]
Michael Grade on Duke HusseyIt is hard to imagine Duke Hussey winning the job of BBC chairman in an open competition. Anyone in doubt about this assertion needs only to read his autobiography. By his own admission, he had no confidence in any of the three directors-general who served under him. He inherited Alasdair Milne whom he fired. He was overruled by his board on the next appointment, Michael Checkland, whom he couldn’t wait not to renew. When he finally got his own man, John Birt, into the DG’s seat, he now says he should have fired him. Hmm!... [Read full article]
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