Category: Mainstream Media
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FT iPad Edition first impressions
For much of the past week, I’ve been lucky enough to have had my hands on an iPad, thanks to 33 Digital, the FT’s PR agency. I was trying out the Financial Times iPad Edition, an app the FT made…
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Diminishing care about politics
Yesterday’s gaffe by Prime Minister Gordon Brown – he made disparaging private comments about a voter with whom he said publicly he’d had an enjoyable conversation, forgetting that his radio microphone was still live – is all over the mainstream…
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The dilemma of message control on live TV
A challenge for broadcasters during the election campaign that’s now well underway – the next UK general election takes place on May 6, in just under four weeks’ time – is controlling their broadcasts in terms of what you see…
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A benchmark established for blogger responsibility
A significant event happened yesterday that embraces freedom of speech, blogging and notions of responsibility for one’s actions. It concerns a blog post written by Rod Liddle (a journalist), published on a blog run by The Spectator (a weekly political…