Posts Tagged With: Media
Express pawns avoid the P-word at Leveson inquiry
Express owner Richard Desmond may have bristled with confidence, but his editors were decidedly less sure-footedEven the dullest passages of Lord Justice Leveson’s phone-hacking inquiry are punctuated by outbursts of discreet sniggering, none more welc… Continue reading
Richard Desmond plays down his papers’ Madeleine McCann mistakes
Express and Star owner apologises to toddler’s parents at Leveson inquiry, but says his papers were ‘scapegoated’ by PCCRichard Desmond has tried to play down mistakes made by his newspapers over their defamatory coverage of missing Madeleine McCann at… Continue reading
Duchess of York charged in Turkey over orphanages documentary
Sarah Ferguson wore disguise to make 2008 ITV programme that Turkish politicians said was smear to derail EU bidA court in Turkey has brought charges against the Duchess of York over a controversial ITV documentary in which she went undercover to secre… Continue reading
Birdsong comes to Holmes’s roost
The BBC is to fill the post-Sherlock Sunday-night void with an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s first world war novelWith an impatient flick of his greatcoat collar, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock has helped BBC1 re-establish itself as the home of mus… Continue reading
Richard Desmond at the Leveson inquiry: no time for ethics
The former Daily Star reporter who quit in protest at alleged ‘anti-Muslim’ coverage reviews his former boss’s evidenceScruffy geezers doing Dan Dare stuff. South American chess correspondents. Talking drums with Tony Blair.Welcome to the world accordi… Continue reading
UK film-makers divided on David Cameron’s support for box-office hits
The prime minister’s suggestion that lottery funding should be aimed at mainstream, money-making movies has been met with cautious optimism from the British film industryReaction continued to be divided across Britain’s film world yesterday in the wake… Continue reading
‘Daily Express right quit to PCC because it failed to stop McCann libels’
Paper’s editor tells Leveson inquiry that regulator was not proactive enough in preventing excesses in press coverageThe editor of the Daily Express has justified its decision to quit the Press Complaints Commission by complaining that the press body f… Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Express papers used investigator five years after sentencing
Head of legal says review has found payments to search agencies for work including research on ‘Rothermere’ projectNewspapers owned by Richard Desmond continued to make use of Steve Whittamore until 2010 – five years after the investigator pleaded gu… Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Richard Desmond, Peter Hill, Hugh Whittow – live
Full coverage as the Daily Express owner and editors past and present appear at the media standards inquiry1.06pm: The inquiry has broken for lunch, after which Whittow will resume giving evidence.1.05pm: Whittow says the future vision of the paper is … Continue reading
So, Waterstones – no apostrophe? Hey, no catastrophe | David Marsh
Despite masterminding International Apostrophe Day, I am conserving my energy for the punctuation marks in greater needYou might think that, as the man behind last year’s first International Apostrophe Day, I’d be joining the outcry about Waterstones’ … Continue reading »