Brian Cathcart
Articles by Brian Cathcart
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Media
Jersey child abuse case
- 06 March 2008
- 16 comments
On the surface, coverage of the child abuse investigation in Jersey appeared predictably lurid and excitable so why were the island's police congratulating the media?
Media
Farewell then, Fidel. You used to matter to us
- 28 February 2008
- 1 comment
So long in coming, the Cuban leader's departure did not even have the power to divide opinion here
Media
Some stories need to be told
- 21 February 2008
- 1 comment
Press coverage of the Bridgend suicides has caused offence and alarm, but a news blackout is not the answer
Media
Omigod! They'll come and chop our heads off!
- 14 February 2008
- 6 comments
In the hysterical rush to be horrified by the archbishop's speech, did anyone expalain what he actually said?
Media
Dirty, appealing game
- 07 February 2008
- 3 comments
British journalism, we are told, is in a terrible state so it seems odd that so many people want to join in
UK Politics
Not soaraway any more
- 31 January 2008
No one seems to hold the editor responsible for the Sun's decline in sales, least of all herself
Media
When the cheerleaders lose faith
- 24 January 2008
Not long ago it was almost taboo for Conservative papers to criticise the police. Now they do it every day, and from the heart. Officers should be worried
Media
Stampeding the democratic process
- 17 January 2008
- 1 comment
It was journalism's most spectacular collective cock-up in years - a prime example of the results of "groupthink". And it happened on the world's most important story
Media
Point five: get rid of the vomit bucket
- 10 January 2008
- 1 comment
Did you survive the first great epidemic of 2008? It was in the papers all right, but did it really happen? Was it a disease, and was it really an epidemic? Who can tell?
Books
Atomised
- 10 January 2008
- 9 comments
After giving America the bomb, Robert Oppenheimer became the target of a political witch-hunt in the 1950s. But did he engineer his own downfall?
