The consensus is that James Murdoch did rather well when he appeared before the parliamentary select committee to answer questions about phone hacking. Hats off to his PR coaches, who clearly did a good job, but a hat tip to something too often pilloried as ‘inauthentic’ in today’s world: good manners. Manners do not merely [...]
In mulling over the ramifications of Hackgate I was struck by a passage in Tom Crone’s book, Law and the Media, which was first published in 1989. In the chapter dealing with professional regulatory bodies in the media, Crone, the former legal manager of News International, wrote: For those who believe that media excess is [...]
I abhor the behaviour of London’s rioters. Not just London’s, but Manchester’s, Birmingham’s, Gloucester’s. No one who engaged in the free-for-all of violence, intimidation, vandalism and looting that recently afflicted various parts of Britain can be applauded. As for The Independent’s blogger Jody McIntyre, who called for his followers to “rise up” and support the [...]