Volume 13, Number 2, 2002 |
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ContentsEditorial - No short cuts, Lady O'Neill 3Julia Langdon - Is the bell tolling for the weeklies? 7 Trevor Kavanagh - Don't be fooled by this death 14 Piers Morgan - ...As Hugh Cudlipp said... 19 Bill Hagerty - Hold — on to — The Front Page 31 Steven Barnett - A licence for future media power 41 Sondra Rubenstein - Brutal reality challenges media academics 46 Don Berry - Life with — and without — Harry 53 Brian Winston - Prince Charles got it wrong 58 Jake Lynch - Performing with headlines in mind 63 BOOK REVIEWSBrenda Maddox on Sue MacGregor 69Ian Aitken on Francis Wheen 73 Robin Lustig on journalism and modern politics 76 
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Editorial - No short cuts, Lady O'NeillFor those of us who have spent our working lives in this trade of journalism it is frankly impossible to draw up a meaningful balance sheet between the good and the bad, the rights and the wrongs, the qualities and the banalities that are spread across our extraordinary business. Much of the technique which equips a scribe goes back to the earliest chisellers on cave walls as well as the original tribal cavaliers and, of course, to those marvellously enterprising spin doctors, the scribes of the desert... [Read full article]
Julia Langdon - Is the bell tolling for the weeklies?There used to be a time, not so very long ago, when self-respecting individuals with an interest in politics but no particular moral certainties of their own would have to wait until Friday every week to find out what they thought about the pressing political issues of the day. It was only after they had read the political weekly magazine of their choice and absorbed the guidance therein that they would know for certain where they stood. Not that anyone would ever have admitted as much, of course... [Read full article]
Piers Morgan - ...As Hugh Cudlipp said...“We were really trying to do something. Nobody was quite sure what, but we were definitely trying to do something.” Those were the words of Hugh Cudlipp shortly before he died, speaking about his time running the Daily Mirror. Amid all the comparisons today’s Daily Mirror is getting with the Cudlipp era, this stands out to me as perhaps the most apposite. For we are definitely trying to do something too. And like Hugh, I’m not entirely sure what it is... [Read full article]
Sondra Rubenstein - Brutal reality challenges media academicsOpen any Israeli newspaper and you will come face to face with terrorism’s reality. The operational definition of terrorism here is non-ideological and simple: It refers to indiscriminate attacks directed against a civilian population. I am not talking about reporting on politics and political events, though one can argue, paraphrasing Karl von Clausewitz, that terrorism is a continuation of politics by other means. Given the frequency of terrorist incidents in this land of milk, honey, and bloodshed, newspaper editors and journalists have had an extraordinary amount of experience covering the aftermath of such attacks... [Read full article]
Brenda Maddox on Sue MacGregorAnatomy is destiny. More to the point, vocal chords are destiny. From time immemorial, the male of the species has recoiled from aspects of the female voice. Too shrill, too high, too scolding, too tentative: women can’t seem to get it right. Shakespeare pronounced: “Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman” (King Lear, Act iii. 274). Yet muted tones are no advantage in the political arena... [Read full article]
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