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For the benefit of Mr Al Fayed

  • 20 September 2007
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The ultimate media circus is about to begin, featuring jewellers, lawyers, embalmers, spies, doctors, lost boxes and of course the proprietor of Harrods. This one will run and run

Our world of rough-and-ready ethics

  • 06 September 2007

Journalists in the US agonise about the smallest details, but here we prefer to use the broad brush, telling ourselves that's how the readers like it. Soon we will have to change

Television's Faustian pact

  • 30 August 2007

The TV industry has been repeatedly restructured, leading to a culture of rampant commercialism. It's time the government took responsibility for the monster it has created

A spiral of excitability

  • 23 August 2007
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It was a month when we might have expected things to calm down in the McCann story, but instead editors and reporters have been furiously barking up all the wrong trees

Let's hear it for Stumpy, Keano and the zorse

  • 02 August 2007

Animals are the unsung heroes of the news agenda

The social acceptability of fake goods

  • 26 July 2007

There is something false in the outrage about deception by television. Mostly we turn a blind eye to dodgy production ethics because after all, it's just entertainment...

There's nothing so strange about Conrad

  • 19 July 2007

The disgraced Telegraph proprietor is an extraordinary figure - until you put him among his historic peers, the mad, bad, sad people who owned papers

A paper that might even deserve Murdoch

  • 12 July 2007
  • 1 comment

His $5bn move for the Wall Street Journal provoked outrage and a desperate rearguard action, but the daily hymn-sheet of the free market was hardly in a strong position to complain

But hey, it's what the readers want

  • 05 July 2007

The "most read" lists on news websites seem to tell us some bracing things about what really interests people. Could this become a substitute for the editor's judgement?

Prejudice? What prejudice?

  • 28 June 2007
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When Barry George was arrested, newspapers branded him a weirdo and a loner - and we are asked to believe this did not contribute to his dubious conviction for murder

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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