Burning Questions in the Lap of Power

April 8, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

by Gary Merrill Every afternoon, Downing Street hosts a briefing for journalists to update them - and their audiences - on latest developments concerning the Covid-19 crisis. In this special post for MRC, Gary Merrill of the University of Roehampton, argues that the briefings are generating very little heat and certainly no light, mostly because of the reluctance of … [Read more...]

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