Rebekah Wade this week lamented the tendency among media commentators to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by their seemingly ubiquitous predictions of the imminent demise of the newspaper. One wonders what she would make of this list, compiled by AllMediaScotland, of 30 Reasons Why We Might Miss Newspapers?
“This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.” Thus spoke David [...]
Much rehearsal went into Rebekah Wade’s debut Hugh Cudlipp lecture, and it seems to have paid off. The “flame-haired” editor of The Sun even impressed Roy Greenslade, who nevertheless rightly corrects her attack on the likes of Mr Justice Eady and their supposedly unilateral creation of a privacy law (when one, as Professor Greenslade points [...]
All media carry major stories today about the depth of the credit crunch, aka recession, aka depression. Its virulence is undoubted, they say, and there’s worse – Britain is set to suffer more than any other advanced nation. It is heartening, then, to see that BSkyB reported a 6% increase in revenue to £2.6bn ($3.7bn) [...]
Blade has, for the first time in years, come down with the ‘flu. As in, the Real McCoy, not any of its convenient, I’ll-have-day-off-work variants. As such, Swordplay may take on a minimalist hue over the next couple of days, but Blade feels he must alert legal folk out there to a prime job which [...]
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After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).