The Sun, Hillsborough and ‘the truth’.
As Jared Ficklin wrote here yesterday, the verdicts returned at the inquest into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 completely vindicate
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Happy Birthday Twitter?
Posted by Professor Bob Franklin The Guardian’s front page story on Tuesday 12th April carried a lengthy and disturbing article
Read morePanama Papers: media attacks on Cameron may have more to do with Brexit than banking
In an era in which public trust of traditional media is slowly rising from the low point of the phone-hacking scandals
Read moreCelebrity, Politics and ‘sniffy journalists’.
Quoted in the Radio Times this week, veteran foreign correspondent and broadcaster Michael Buerk said that he was ‘a little sniffy
Read moreBritish media coverage of refugee and migrant crisis is the most polarised and aggressive in Europe
Much as for Ronald Reagan, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, for the UK press, one newspaper’s “asylum
Read moreThe Trumpification of the US media: why chasing news values distorts politics
Posted by, Stephen Cushion Outside the US, the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president is typically met with a
Read moreHow I learned to love Twitter as an academic
Posted by, Professor Jenny Kitzinger I had meant to just lurk – to observe the weird world of Twitter from
Read moreTwitter is a dangerous place for those in the public eye.
Stephen Fry has been, give or take the odd sabbatical, a prolific and entertaining tweeter for a number of years.
Read moreWe’re all doomed – The Tory press and the EU referendum.
The latest polls are telling us that the British public are moving in droves to the Brexit camp: YouGov has
Read moreIt’s an Apple world – Or it will be soon.
Ladies and gentlemen we are fast approaching peak Apple. In the last week we’ve seen the Steve Jobs biopic starring Michael Fassbender released,
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