This week’s performance by Rupert and James Murdoch at a British parliamentary hearing raises some questions that News Corp. will struggle to answer, regardless of the outcome of the phone-hacking scandal. I find it difficult not to believe that in the days leading up to the inquiry that Murdoch senior and junior will have been…
In the wake of Andy Coulson’s resignation, a number of questions immediately come to mind that have been only passingly addressed by the press over the weekend. How to deal with news organisations owned outright by people such as the Barclay Brothers and Rupert Murdoch comes top of the list for me. We need to…
This weekend the nation gathers around the TV once again, to watch the X Factor final; the uber-karaoke contest live from the Wembley’s Amphitheatrum Flavium, thumbs poised for pollice verso. Tomorrow we will marvel at the victor who, with scrupulous and unaffected dignity, will be giving thanks to the loyal viewers for allowing him or…
From the USA to Australia Borkowski quoted on the issues of the day A royal romance that’s hardly a fairytale The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia But she manipulated the press to sell her image and unhappy message, a prominent British public-relations consultant, Mark Borkowski, http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/a-royal-romance-thats-hardly-a-fairytale/2007/01/12/1168105181424.html?page=2 Britain Reacts to Posh and Becks’s U.S. Move http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20008333,00.html