Articles tagged Media:
Meme: My Week in the Media
- 3 Jan 2008
What I've Read I tend to have a few books 'on the go'. The main one at the moment is Tom Bower's biography of Gordon Brown. It's frightening. If half of what he asserts is true, this country should be very frightened indeed. He paints Brown as a half mad, half psycho, full on...
Giving Journalism & Politics a Bad Name
- 23 Dec 2007
You know it's a light news day when a Sunday newspaper has a story about MPs' pay on its front page. Cue today's Mail on Sunday. Their front page headline screams MPs DEMAND 10pc PAY RISE. The story commences: "A political furore erupted last night after it was revealed that M...
Indicating to the Right? Return to a Core Vote Strategy? Er, No...
- 30 Aug 2007
At ten to seven this morning I woke to the sound of my mobile ringing. It was the Today programme. Oh God, I thought, who's died. Luckily no one had. They wanted to know if I could appear on their programme in the the following hour to talk about David Cameron's Newsnightinter...
Is the BBC Saying Sorry to Alastair Campbell
- 11 Jul 2007
I have just come back from doing an piece for 5 Live with Edwina Currie on Alastair Campbell's diaries. It was ostensibly to preview the 3 part BBC2 series which starts tonight. I had, in my naivety assumed that it was a three part documentary on Campbell and his reign of terr...
Labour Complain to the BBC About ... Me
- 17 May 2007
The Press Gazette Axegrinder column reports today the following little titbit... The BBC appears to have angered bigwigs in the Labour Party with its seemingly endless invites to Westminster blogger Iain Dale to review the papers. When Dale appears on News 24 to gi...
EXCLUSIVE: The Fallout from the Daily Politics Debacle
- 12 Jan 2007
I've now had the inside story of what happened the the Daily Politics this lunchtime, when they were taken off the air and missed Blair's final remarks in the Commons and the standing ovation. In THIS post I said... I am dumbstruck. Andrew Neil will be furious. The Daily Po...
Guardian Diary: Keep the Journalists Busy or Live to Regret It
- 10 Oct 2006
The problem with Party Conferences is that unless you announce lots of new initiatives and policies the media hordes have nothing to write about. And when you don’t feed the media beast, it turns round and bites you. If journalists have nothing better to write about they rehas...
BBC Online Reviews 18 Doughty Street
- 6 Oct 2006
Unlike newspapers, radio and TV broadcasters in Britain are bound by strict rules on balance and impartiality. But next week, a political channel threatens to turn these sacred codes on their head. How? By broadcasting on the net. When did you last watch a rough and tumble ...
Sunday Times: 18 Doughty Street Launches
- 4 Oct 2006
By Iain Dale is Presenter of Vox Politix on 18DoughtyStreet Talk TV Political television in this country is on the decline. The BBC appears to think that it can only get ratings for political programmes if it invites comedians and celebrities to pontificate on gre...
New Political Internet TV Station To Be Launched
- 22 Sep 2006
18 DOUGHTY STREET TALK TV - POLITICS FOR ADULTS - GROUNDBREAKING NEW CURRENT AFFAIRS TV CHANNEL TO BE LAUNCHED ON THE INTERNET 10th October will see the launch of Britain’s first political Internet TV Channel. 18DoughtyStreet Talk TV will broadcast for four hours a...