Accuracy vs hyperbole

A good piece by Alistair Burnett on journalists' over-use of the word 'crisis'.

A real-news god

Ben Goldacre comprehensively screws the Observer.

TV production critiqued

"If TV often gives the impression of being made by sniggering, chippy twentysomethings with grudges and no sense of history or decorum, it is because it often is".

Yes but is it news?

#4 - The Today Programme have a campervan at Glastonbury.

New news and old news

A good piece by Mark Lawson about journalistic mea culpas that are presented as news. The point that the piece is heading towards, but refrains from spelling out, is that it's harder for TV news to get away with the unsubstantiated rabid screaming hysteria of the print press (though admittedly, the 24-hour channels are increasingly managing it).

The end of the world is nigh

... because I agree with Tony Blair. Oh dear.

Are editors responsible for what they print?

Clearly that is one of the basic functions of an editor, no?

So this is pretty disgraceful.