Brian Cathcart
Articles by brian cathcart
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Media
There has never been a better time to die
- 30 April 2007
- 1 comment
The maharajah who permitted garlic, the bouncing diva and the teenage groupie who kissed John Gielgud's knob - all signs that we live in the golden age of the newspaper obituary
Media
A sudden case of collective reverse ferret
- 23 April 2007
One moment wedding bells were ringing. The next, it was all over for Kate and her prince. The Sun's royal scoop caught everyone on the hop, and the result was . . . well, unattributable
UK Politics
Why dead Arabs come last
- 16 April 2007
The rules that determine whose story leads the front page and who gets buried on page 14 can be racist, sexist, chauvinist and snobbish, but the readers are as much to blame as the editors
Media
The naming of Faye Turney
- 09 April 2007
The Iranians may have paraded her on television, but not before the British press and British television had shown us - and them - just how vulnerable she was
Africa
When journalism is powerless
- 02 April 2007
- 3 comments
Despite years of fine reporting and many furious editorials, the bloodshed continues in Darfur and Mugabe hangs on in Zimbabwe.
Media
Still losing money after all these years
- 26 March 2007
Profit is everything to Rupert Murdoch, and yet, after more than a quarter of a century, he still can't get the Times into the black. The man has just turned 76; what is he waiting for?
Media
We should all be so persecuted
- 19 March 2007
A tale of David and Goliath, in which the part of Goliath - representing the ruthless left-wing intelligentsia and media - is taken by Lorraine Kelly
Media
A white filter for your news
- 12 March 2007
You will see very few black faces in the newsrooms of our national papers, and only someone who has had his head in the ground for 20 years would think that wasn't a problem
Media
The wicked pleasure of Simon Heffer
- 05 March 2007
It is a shame such gifts of expression have fallen to such a right-wing man, but if you dislike the present government his words have the power to make you say "Yes!" out loud
Media
The newspapers on Mars
- 26 February 2007
A daft, wonderful BBC cop show leaves no doubt that the Britain of 1973 was a strange, ugly place, but it turns out that the daily papers of that time have things to recommend them
