13 May 2012 6:00 pm at the Black-E (next to the Chinese arch), 1 Great George Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK, L1 5EW Cost: £6.00/£4.00 Buy tickets … [Read more...]
Hacking Book – How ‘serious’ media consigned Wikileaks cables to the shadows
Below is the excerpt from the book published in The Guardian. Read Roy Greenslade's blog here The performance of serious media in relation to the WikiLeaks cables reveals a troubling picture. Far from championing the whistleblowing cause, the strategy adopted by the mainstream media effectively deligitimised WikiLeaks, marginalised stories of significant public interest, … [Read more...]
Just how much worse is Hackgate going to get?
By Tim Crook Originally published in Comparative Media Law and Ethics The very idea of a national newspaper in the United Kingdom hiring private detectives to spy on the families of lawyers representing clients litigating against them is beyond belief. Yet this is the latest revelation in the Hackgate scandal, and has been confirmed and described as ‘inappropriate’ by … [Read more...]
Hackgate and the Communications Review – Two separate planets?
Last Wednesday, 6 July, corporate lobbyists, public affairs directors, independent producers and politicians came together in a Westminster Media Forum to debate ‘industry priorities for the new Communications Bill’. In the introductory session, top figures from the BBC, BSkyB, Channel 4, Google, Virgin Media and COBA (Commercial Broadcasters Association) all agreed that the … [Read more...]