Articles tagged Media:
Rebekah Brooks' Resignation Is a Week Too Late
- 15 Jul 2011
Strange timing, but Rebekah Brooks has finally bowed to the inevitable and fallen on her sword. Her position had been untenable since the decision to close News of the World and I was astonished she and the Murdochs couldn’t see that. Even now, judging by the tone of her resig...
I Admit It: I was Wrong
- 11 Jul 2011
OK, I’m going to hold up my hands and do a bit of a mea culpa here. Last December I wrote an article in the Mail on Sunday, ostensibly on Julian Assange, but I also used it to have a go at The Guardian for their pursual of Andy Coulson over his alleged involvement in phone hac...
I'm Glad 'Blagging' Has Resurfaced
- 11 Jul 2011
It’s good that Gordon Brown has spoken out and revealed that at least one newspaper, the Sunday Times, had tried to hack his bank account details and the medical records of his son, Fraser. It’s outrageous that anyone, let alone a much respected Sunday newspaper should sanctio...
PCC Verdict on Dale v The Daily Mail
- 5 Nov 2009
On 30 September, the Daily Mail printed a story about me in its Ephraim Hardcastle Diary column. This is what it said... Overtly gay Tory blogger Iain Dale has reached the final stage of parliamentary selection for Bracknell, telling PinkNews: 'I hope any PinkNews readers w...
Where are the Female Right Wing Pundits?
- 14 Aug 2009
Tim Montgomerie has an interesting post headlined "Which is more influential, Newsnight or Today"? He says he never turns down a slot on the Today Programme because of its influential audience. He also reckons it has an audience of 5-7 million at any one time. I don't think he...
Upon Reflection
- 13 Aug 2009
The great thing about having a blog and a Twitter feed is the ability to judge whether you have hit the right note. Or not. Readers are not slow in coming forward to give their views and they cannot be ignored. OK, there are always some people who if I said the sun was hot, wo...
Media Masters
- 10 May 2009
Jeremy Nicholas is the match day announcer at West Ham and does a lot of radio & TV work. He's just published an excellent book called MEDIA MASTERS: INSIDER SECRETS FROM THE BIG NAMES OF BROADCAST, PRINT & SOCIAL MEDIA. For some inexplicable reason there's an intervie...
How (Not) To Deal With Abusive Thirteen Year Olds
- 20 Dec 2008
It's odd being me sometimes. This lunchtime I popped down to the BBC South East studios in Tunbridge Wells to do a quick live piece on their lunchtime news programme. They then wanted to do a recorded package for the evening news programme. The reporter took me out into Calver...
The 'People Like Us' Phenomenon
- 16 Mar 2008
Last night on Sky News we briefly discussed why the media gave a much higher profile to the Madeleine McCann case than the Shannon Matthews disappearance. There are, I'm sure lots of factors, but one was the fact that for the media, the McCanns were very much "people like us",...
The Guardian: The Politics of Publishing a Must-read Magazine
- 3 Mar 2008
Free distribution has made men's weekly magazine Shortlist a success - even as the glossies falter. Can it do the same for blogger Iain Dales's new political title? James Silver investigates... In the cut-throat political magazine sector, new readers are hard to come by and...