At a regional news debate at City University yesterday evening, media blogger Roy Greenslade asked us (me, freelance media reporter Jon Slattery, Northern Echo editor Peter Barron, Times web development editor Joanna Geary and paidContent:UK reporter Patrick Smith) if we thought pay walls would work. I said I thought Rupert Murdoch hadn’t much to lose [...]
A campaign to balance inaccurate news reporting about the cervical cancer jab is working. Malcolm Coles, SEO consultant and blogger, informs me that NHS pages with information about the HPV immunisation are steadily getting bumped up the Google rankings, displacing misleading and deliberately alarming newspaper reports. He says:
“The three NHS pages I was targeting are [...]
Subtext at the Observer
Sep 16th, 2009
I admit, I wasn’t really serious when I suggested that Kathryn Flett was politically motivated in her failure to name one ‘remotely famous’ Carolyn for her recent Observer Magazine column.
But take a look at p6 of Private Eye (no. 1244). Flett may well be leading a subtle Observer resistance movement, with subtext (buried in the [...]
A polite letter about online accuracy
Sep 7th, 2009
I rarely feel the urge to submit a letter to a newspaper, thus inadvertently supporting a trend that sees women write in far less frequently than men.
But here’s what I’d write in response to Joan Smith’s piece in the Independent on Sunday about the dangers of the web. I tried to post a similar point [...]
An ode to the boss, or perhaps not: Carolyn who?
Sep 6th, 2009
Guardian Media Group’s chief executive must have been thrilled to read a column dedicated to her own first name in this week’s Observer Magazine… Or perhaps not. The future of Kathryn Flett’s pay cheque is at the economising hands of GMG, but she couldn’t think of one famous Carolyn for her most recent OM article. [...]
From Liz Hunt in the Telegraph, ‘The MMR scandal is back‘: “The second factor is claims by a Sunday newspaper that the doctor at the heart of this controversy, Andrew Wakefield, manipulated the data in the study to show a causal relationship between administration of MMR and the onset [...]
That articles like this get written shows how far there is to go for racial equality in the UK
Oct 14th, 2008
It seems that racial narrow-mindedness is not confined to the more dubious of the Sunday papers. I really took issue with Minette Marrin’s article in Sunday’s paper. She said that BME officers in the police (that she condescendingly labels “the fashionable abbreviation for black and minority ethnic”), shouldn’t be allowed a Black Police Association. She [...]
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