Brian Cathcart
Articles by brian cathcart
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Media
Journalists who investigate terror
- 29 May 2008
- 3 comments
The hounding of reporters like Shiv Malik should alarm us all, because of the danger the only sources of information will be government and the police
Media
Trusting the detective
- 22 May 2008
The Jersey child abuse affair arrived in a blaze of headlines, but three months have passed and there is little sign of progress. Did the news media get it wrong?
Media
How to report a heatwave
- 15 May 2008
- 2 comments
The only cliché banned from use is: "Phew, what a scorcher!"
Media
They won, but they're not rejoicing
- 08 May 2008
- 3 comments
Right-wing commentators greeted Tory election success with doubt and anxiety. Isn't this is the outcome they were hoping for?
Media
An unprecedented focus on the wounded
- 24 April 2008
- 1 comment
In Vietnam, it was body bags that mattered, and the damaged survivors were ignored. But today we read a great deal about the soldiers who have been maimed in our wars, and ministers and generals should be worried
Media
Contempt for the law
- 17 April 2008
A woman has been charged and is awaiting trial, yet the papers carry on monstering her. The government could call a halt in the interest of justice, but it would rather not
Media
The Sun holds the flame aloft
- 10 April 2008
- 1 comment
Most papers were disgusted by the Olympic flame's visit to London. Murdoch's Sun, however, judged the day a triumph. Now why would it think that?
Media
Welcome to the national metaphor
- 03 April 2008
- 1 comment
There was hubris, there was bathos, there was a moral for every taste, and it all happened right on the doorstep
UK Politics
Is Boris faking it?
- 27 March 2008
- 46 comments
A new, serious Boris Johnson is now being offered to the voters of London - thanks to the heavy stage-direction of Tory party minders.
Media
Time for some forceful self-regulation
- 19 March 2008
- 3 comments
As the Express and Star apologise to the McCanns, newspaper editors should be calling for a full public inquiry into their coverage of the Madeleine story
