Volume 16, Number 1, 2005 |
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ContentsEditorial - A matter of honours 3Nick Pollard - Diary of a disaster 7 Election 2005Bill Hagerty - Spin, rottweilers and the virtual swingometer 13Ivor Gaber - TV: dumb and dumber? 24 Kevin Maguire - When poacher turns gamekeeper 29 Clive Soley - The public is sick of us both 35 Emily Bell - End of the offline? 41 Steve Tatham - Al-Jazeera: can it make it here? 47 W Leon Smith - When principles stampede the herd 53 Suzanne Franks - The neglect of Africa 59 John Coulter - Moral reason never to tell 65 Kelvin MacKenzie - Why Paul Dacre’s worth his million 70 BOOK REVIEWSHarold Evans on Ken Auletta 75Bryan Wharton on the BPPA 79 Julia Langdon on Jon Snow 81 Charles Wheeler on Greg Dyke 83 Philip Jacobson on Stuart Allan/Barbie Zelizer 85 The way we were 46 
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Editorial - A matter of honoursThat we still feel the need to call them “the Oscars of British journalism” says it all. The British Press Awards have yet to earn the profound respect they ought to inspire. After three decades, it is time for British newspaper journalism to reclaim its professional honours. Things are hardly likely to improve while awards continue to be sponsored by plcs presuming the press will love them more. Forget the Oscars cachet. We should be nicknaming our honours after one or other of British journalism’s late greats. The Beavers? The Northcliffes? The Cudlipps? The Scotts? The Delanes? Or perhaps the Camerons?... [Read full article]
ELECTION 2005Bill Hagerty - Spin, rottweilers and the virtual swingometerIn a special section devoted to the forthcoming general election, the British Journalism Review examines the roles of broadcasting, the press and politicians in the high-profile climax of the democratic process. To begin, Bill Hagerty interviewed three prominent television journalists who will be in the front line of the BBC’s election coverage. Andrew Marr, political editor of the BBC, began as a reporter on The Scotsman and eventually edited The Independent before moving into television. Presenter and interviewer Jeremy Paxman worked as a reporter on Tonight and Panorama before joining Newsnight in 1989. Peter Snow, Newsnight’s first anchor and a co-presenter for the BBC on election night, covered his first general election, as a reporter for ITN, in 1964.... [Read full article]
W Leon Smith - When principles stampede the herdWhen The Lone Star Iconoclast, the newspaper of George W Bush’s vacation home in Crawford, Texas, began publication in 2000, little did we realise that the future would include scrutiny, criticism and praise from throughout the world, and that our small weekly newspaper would find itself intensely embroiled in a battle between principle and survival... [Read full article]
John Coulter - The moral reason never to tellThe prickly subject of source protection took centre stage once more towards the end of last year in the United States when a slew of court actions demanding that reporters reveal sources saw journalists sentenced to jail and, subsequently, the introduction of a federal “shield” law that would provide “absolute protection” for confidential sources. Democrat senator Christopher Dodd’s “Free Speech Protection Act of 2004” is designed to prevent the compelled disclosure of sources “regardless of whether or not the source was promised confidentiality”. It appears that progress is being made, but source protection remains a dilemma throughout journalism... [Read full article]
Kelvin MacKenzie - Why Dacre’s worth his millionThey are easy to spot at a party. Shoulders hunched – eyes darting narrowly – a general sense of despair. Yes, they are Britain’s national newspaper editors. And boy, are they glum over their circulations. Nevertheless, as they ponder what they are going to make of their careers, they must never waiver in their belief that what they do every day does make a difference... [Read full article]
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