Category: Mainstream Media

  • How to solve the ad blocking question

    If you run ad blocking software on your computer or mobile device, you’re either preventing the appearance of obtrusive, annoying ads that sometimes block content and add code that slows down the loading of the site you’re visiting, especially on…

  • 7/7 perspective 10 years on

    7/7 perspective 10 years on

    Today marks the tenth anniversary of the July 7 terrorist bombings in London in 2005, known as 7/7. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist men detonated four bombs – three in quick succession aboard London Underground…

  • Fixing a polling system that’s out of sync

    Fixing a polling system that’s out of sync

    Reading the various reports, narratives and commentaries this weekend about the results of the UK general election that took place on May 7, the overall perspective I’ve formed on all of that is how could the expert commentators, opinion-formers and…

  • Rays of light amongst the gloom in the 2015 Trust Barometer

    Rays of light amongst the gloom in the 2015 Trust Barometer

    If you glance through the 2015 Trust Barometer published by the Edelman PR firm on January 20, you’d be forgiven for thinking that things are bad if not dire everywhere. The report – marking the 15th consecutive year Edelman has…

  • The local newspaper is dead, long live the local newspaper

    The closure of printed newspapers around the UK counts new casualties in the battle to stem the tide of declining circulations and the ever-diminishing number of titles in print with news this past week that Trinity Mirror is shutting down…