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News hit by whiteout
- Brian Cathcart
- 09 October 2008
The press is still in panicky denial over diversity and racism, as the coverage of Sir Ian Blair's departure shows
The market delivers bad news
- Brian Cathcart
- 02 October 2008
- 3 comments
If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all
Journalists: they can't live without us
- Brian Cathcart
- 25 September 2008
Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better
Getting things right is not a luxury
- Brian Cathcart
- 18 September 2008
- 1 comment
In sacking most of its sub-editors, Express Newspapers is making a classic error. The job these people do is not an optional extra or an anachronism; it is integral
Get out the suntan lotion
- Brian Cathcart
- 11 September 2008
Rain and floods mean a crisis for editors, a crisis of waffle. People are upset, but what can you say? Who can you blame? What does it mean?
The Asian policeman who got uppity
- Brian Cathcart
- 04 September 2008
- 9 comments
Tarique Ghaffur is claiming that he was discriminated against in the police service, and some in the right-wing press are not taking it well
Reading the political codes
- Brian Cathcart
- 28 August 2008
How is it possible to find meaning in something a politician doesn't say? For the political correspondent, it is all in a day's work
To protect the innocent
- Brian Cathcart
- 07 August 2008
- 3 comments
Barry George was wrongly convicted in 2001 after the press, with the implicit blessing of the government, had destroyed what little reputation he may have had
Getting giddy over Obama
- Brian Cathcart
- 24 July 2008
- 1 comment
He is the Fab One, the new Diana, a cross between Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, and when he comes to town we want to see his specialness for ourselves
Filming Max Mosley
- Brian Cathcart
- 10 July 2008
When it comes to matters of privacy, the very last opinions we should listen to are those of papers like the News of the World
