Category: Mainstream Media

  • Milestones in Iran

    While the mainstream media is proving its worth (and its mettle) in its reporting of fast-moving events in Iran, that parallel universe known as social media is a channel for huge volumes of comment and opinion, the type that is…

  • The ridicule of Parliament

    This morning, I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph, the edition of the paper that includes “The Complete Expenses Files,” a 68-page report detailing the revelations about MPs’ expenses that the paper has been publishing every day for…

  • MPs expenses: How to save £91 a week

    Earlier this week, the government published the details of expenses claimed by Members of Parliament. Plenty has been talked about during the past few months in relation to MPs’ expenses, not the least of which has been the ongoing scoop…

  • Keeping Twitter up for Iran

    In the wake of developments in what’s happening in Iran following elections there last week – continuing violent street protests and the Iranian government muzzling the foreign media – this announcement by Twitter yesterday about its delaying a critical maintenance…

  • How to be a Sky News iPhone reporter

    European satellite TV company Sky News has launched an iPhone app that enables you to receive the broadcaster’s news and information content on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The free app offers a rich array of content including news, sport,…