Hat tip to Carolyn Elefant and www.law.com for the following. According to Reuters, Donald Trump is claiming that he should be excused from paying a guarantee upon which he is alleged to have defaulted because “the world economic crisis constitutes a force majeure.” Ms Elefant wonders whether this creative application of force majeure principles might [...]
Roy Greenslade has occasionally been criticised for an alleged tendency only ever to write about negative events in the UK media. His critics might say he’s at it again with this piece from his blog. It boldly goes where no one has lately thought to go and lists all the newspapers that have closed in [...]
A court order prohibits too much discussion of the Alfie Patten story, but over at Hitwise there’s an interesting piece examining how its coverage by the Sun made it the newspaper’s most popular story of all time. Yes, social media played a part. Click here to read more.
Towards the end of last year, Fleet Street was rocked to its foundations with the news that the Independent would be relocating to West Kensington, where it would share premises with the two newspapers most diametrically opposed to everything it stands for: the Daily Mail and its sister Sunday title. The move was supposed to [...]
With the inexorability of a furtive kiss between two love-struck teenagers, the High Court flexed its muscles yesterday to impose a ban on further coverage of the Alfie story. The media is remains at liberty to say what it likes about the 60s film starring Sir Michael Caine, not to mention the rather indifferent 1996 [...]
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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).