How to beat aggressive government propaganda in the Boris Johnson age
The creator of public relations Edward Bernays has lessons for our polarised times.
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Should Journalism Schools teach TikTok – even if Newsrooms are on the fence?
Tik Tok is an app. Put it on your phone or tablet.
Users create looping videos of around 15–20 seconds in length (think of it as Vine’s big brother) and mostly set them to a library of music clips. The look-and-feel is that of slick young creators producing edited video content with a banging soundtrack.
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Poverty is everyone’s business
BBC 2’s new three part documentary series, Broke, is perfectly timed. Though in truth it would have been relevant and crucial at any time over the last ten years.
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Carry On film revival? Britain’s already got slapstick politics
Carry On films have been compared to a Leave voter’s wet dream. But they were more thoughtful and honest than that.
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Theresa May and press coverage
It is interesting and dispiriting to note that, as with every other female politician in the country, May’s political career has been predominantly defined by her gender.
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Goodbye Jeremy Kyle Show – Hello Surjury
As Kyle’s show ends, Surjury has been commissioned. The show will have a jury of “peers and experts” deliberating on whether members of a group of young people deserve to have plastic surgery.
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Vitriol and bluster – another week in political communication
We seem to be in an age where sketchy undeliverable promises and personal bombast are lauded in some quarters as positive traits.
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News and graphic imagery
It’s the news media’s job and responsibility to report and explain the events which disrupt the regular order of things – that this reporting is undertaken seriously and with care is of the greatest importance.
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Protests in Hong Kong and the Responsibilities of International Media
Let’s all pay full respect to those protesters and their voices, but the only way to legitimise their passion is to seek a productive solution going forward.
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Coke is it in the Tory party leadership contest.
Conservative leadership race: How controversy stalks Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.
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