Month: September 2004

The Guardian Responds To Blair’s Speech Tony Blair’s speech yesterday to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton was “low-key, conversational and reasoned” the Guardian informs us (Leader, September 29, 2004). And his “long-awaited apology on →

An Exchange With The Guardian Introduction – The Hall Of Mirrors The mass media often seems reasonable, insightful, compassionate and critical of power. To read the Independent or Guardian every day is to receive a →

Reply From The Head of BBC TV News In Parts 1 and 2 of this alert, we asked a number of British media editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating their failings on Iraq. We →

An Exchange With The BBC’s Newsnight Editor Public Versus Power Intellectuals The one truth that cries out to be heard as a result of everything we now know about the invasion of Iraq is this: →

The Independent On Sunday – Guardian Of Power In Part 1 of this alert, we asked a number of British newspaper editors to conduct publicly available critiques investigating their failings on Iraq. We received several →

Media Lens Challenges Senior Editors “The evidence suggests we have no need for a mea culpa. We did our job well.” (David Mannion, Head of Independent Television News, to Media Lens, August 2004) Blair – →