David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 19 March, 2008 at 7:33 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + journalism + radio category . {1 Comment}
The rest of the media has joined in an extended reporting-as-gloating session over the out-of-court settlement that Express Newspapers agreed with Kate and Gerry McCann today. It has been top of the running order on news bulletins all day, with pundits queuing up to decry the coverage of Richard Desmond’s papers.
Nobody does schadenfraude better than [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 10 March, 2008 at 8:04 pm. It's been filed in the journalism + radio + television category . {Comment}
Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone talking about Shannon Matthews, on the One Show tonight:
The media reflects the public mood, and the public just haven’t taken to Shannon’s family as they did to Kate and Gerry McCann.
Yes, it’s the fault of the public – the scum who read newspapers rather than the nice people who write [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 13 February, 2008 at 9:26 pm. It's been filed in the manchester + music + radio category . {4 Comments}
What is, or was, the point of Xfm Manchester?
After launching with much fanfare just two years ago, GCap Media has announced that it is going to sell off its Xfm radio licence in Manchester. The reason is a cost cutting drive by GCap in order to fend off a takeover, exacerbated by rising costs associated [...]