Goodbye and good riddance to the News of the Screws
Goodbye, News of the Screws. It came as a bit of a shock to hear that Murdoch has closed the News of the World, but typical of our times that I first heard of it on Twitter. The twitterati and today’s...
View ArticleKnacker of the Yard finally goes after Press wrong doers
The Guardian led yesterday, with a story about itself, How the Metropolitan Police are planning to use the Official Secrets Act to force the Guardian journalists that broke the story about the hacking...
View ArticleYankee Law, freedom and the internet!
The White House, in a reply to a petition on its e-petitions site calling for them to oppose the current legislative attempts to censor the internet in the name of anti-piracy says, among other things,...
View ArticleWe need a Press that serves the public, not just Oligarchs
We are down to short strokes on the nation’s political leadership’s response to the Levenson Enquiry and #hackgate. Cameron, at the behest of the right wing press broke of talks with Labour and the...
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Without news rooms and journalists, we won’t get the news!
On my way to the Housing Fringe, I bumped into a Times journalist, who asked if I was attending their meeting, which was branded around one of their columns which I had not heard of, and was starring...
View ArticleThe right to be wrong in public
Reading the New Statesman, over the last few days, and they state that in the UK, journalists can defend themselves against the allegation of inaccuracy. Judges will test them on how hard they worked...
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Dangerous Times
Anthony Barnet writes at Open Democracy, an article called, “The Media Monarchy”, in which he looks at the Law, the Media, contempt and the bullying of the Supreme Court. He finishes by pointing out...
View ArticleAre Transparency International wearing rose coloured specs?
I find it hard to believe that Transparency International, the world’s premier anti-corruption campaigning organisation have marked the UK as having improved on 2020 in their most recent Corruption...
View ArticleVirtual Worlds and the EU
I am about to return to Brussels for the final session of the EU’s citizen’s assembly on virtual worlds. I decided to make a document from my notes on the EU citizens panel on Virtual Worlds. As I...
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