… or ‘we get the politicians we deserve, pt1′: Via Mick, this is worth a look over at the Daily Mail for people who recycle The Independent. “Academics …. found that “not giving straight answers to questions” scored an average of 8.45 when people were asked how much of a problem it was on a scale [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’
Liveblogging council meetings
That’s what the Manchester Evening News are proposing to do. They’re using CoverItLive. Here’s their coverage of Trafford Council meeting on the 2nd December. Now I’ve used CoverItLive a few times and its settings (if I recall correctly) can and usually do pick up anyone’s tweets. How long before Councillors cop on to this? And [...]
Less cynicism? Or less scepticism?
The Birmingham News Room – a well-executed information hub managed by Birmingham City Council has been launched and there’s a good write-up from Nick Booth over at Podnosh. I don’t have much to add to his account of it, and I’d urge to to have a good look around and think about the idea., but [...]
Councils v local newspapers?
A few weeks ago, Roy Greenslade picked up on a growing opposition to Council-run free newspapers. As he notes, the opposition comes both from smaller political parties locally, and from commercial rivals that are being edged out – as they see it. Elsewhere, we are seeing growing demands for a journalistic ‘bail-out’ – and not [...]
Can journalism save democracy?
One of the founding questions behind this blog is this: Is the decline in local journalism damaging local democracy? Well, the consistently good Polis blog managed by Charlie Beckett is addressing it with some energy here. Charlie worked at ITN, C4 News, LWT and the BBC. The post linked to here is a guest post [...]
Does the idea of 'impartial journalism' deserve challenging?
I’d like to look at how the requirement that is placed upon public broadcasters to be impartial impacts upon the quality of democracy in the UK. It’s a complex question, and I’d like to explore it over a few posts. ‘Impartial’ can mean many things. The most obvious expression of it is in the guidelines [...]
Is the decline in local journalism damaging local democracy?
Here’s quite an old link I stumbled across while googling something else. It doesn’t do to only link to very new posts, does it? “I don’t believe the intention is to destabilise democracy but that is the effect in many communities where the coverage of local politics has been downgraded by a loss of experienced [...]