Volume 17, Number 3, 2006 |
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ContentsEditorial - Cry freedom 3SportNicky Campbell - Why I wanted to join the Luftwaffe 7Raymond Boyle - Running away from the circus 12 Dominic Wells - Inside Elliott's empire 19 PrivacyChristopher Meyer - We know better than the courts 27Amber Melville-Brown - Queen Victoria has a lot to answer for 33 Mark Thomson - The horse has already bolted 40 Brian Winston - Have you actually read the HRA 45 Peter C Glover - What climate consensus? 50 EditorsBill Hagerty - The Post man's still delivering 56Barry Askew - Regrets? I've had a few 65 BOOK REVIEWSSteve Dyson on Peter Deeley 74Nicholas Jones on Adam Clayton Powell III 76 Phillip Knightley on Howard Tumber and Frank Webster 78 Julia Langdon on Nicholas Jones 80 John Edwards on Gay Talese 82 Anthony Delano on James Cameron 84 Letter 87 Quotes of the Quarter 6 Ten Years Ago - The way we were 18 
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Editorial - Cry freedomDoubts about the commitment of the Government to its own Freedom of Information Act have again been raised by the leaking of a Cabinet memo from Lord Falconer, aimed at reducing the number of requests made under it. New Labour’s manifesto promised an Act when it was elected in 1997. An attack of cold feet delayed legislation until Tony Blair’s second term as Prime Minister and the Act has been in operation only since January of last year. Yet already the people have discomfited Lord Falconer, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, by actually having the temerity to exercise their rights... [Read full article]
Nicky Campbell - Why I wanted to join the LuftwaffeWhen we arrived in Germany I said to a colleague: “Ninety per cent of our listeners would kill to be here and the other 10 per cent would kill us because we are.” He patronised me right back as I recall. We had to give it everything, because the World Cup is the greatest single sporting event on the planet and we were being paid to be there. Giving it everything, though, was not, as sports journos are distressingly wont to say, “a big ask”. It’s how an actor must feel when asked to do a love scene with Halle Berry. I was ready for my close-up... [Read full article]
Raymond Boyle - Running away from the circusSports journalism often receives a bad press. It has been characterised as the quintessential “toy department” of journalism, a bastion of sloppy and lazy journalistic practice that is divorced from the rigorous constraints applied to other areas of the trade. Often this critique has been well merited. Yet what constitutes sports journalism or, more accurately, journalism about sports, is changing... [Read full article]
Dominic Wells - Inside Elliott's empireThe recent hoo-ha surrounding Rolling Stone magazine’s 1000th issue kept reminding me of another magazine, and another proprietor. Launched in the 60s by a callow youth with a singular vision? Quirky editorial style, made possible by still being owned by that one individual nearly 40 years on? Much imitated, never bettered? One might equally be talking about London’s Time Out magazine. The only difference is that as Time Out is a weekly, it’s long past its 1000th issue, which it celebrated back in 1989 not long after I joined... [Read full article]
Christopher Meyer -After years wandering the world, I am at last, thanks to the PCC, getting to know my own country. Since starting my first term as Chairman in 2003, I have kept up a pretty steady programme of visits to editors and proprietors outside London. This has, for instance, taken me to Scotland 14 times and to Newcastle, a city I had never previously visited, on three occasions. The PCC, based in London, must not be seen as trapped in a metropolitan bubble. The service we provide is for everybody in the UK. It is still a challenge to get over to people that the PCC does not spend most of its time dealing with privacy complaints from London law firms on behalf of celebrities... [Read full article]
Bill Hagerty - The Post man's still deliveringIn one of the world’s most famous newsrooms, a half-eaten chocolate cake sits lonely on a deserted desk. In a crowded elevator, black humour seeps into conversations concerning how severance pay will be spent: “What will you do – buy a Mercedes?” Hands are shaken as workers spill into the street and head towards the subway for the last time, avoiding the late-afternoon emptiness of the Post Pub around the corner on L Street. Some 40 employees are leaving today. Economic reality has caught up with The Washington Post... [Read full article]
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