Brian Cathcart
Articles by Brian Cathcart
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Media
Let's hear it for Stumpy, Keano and the zorse
- 02 August 2007
Animals are the unsung heroes of the news agenda
Media
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...
Media
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
Media
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
Media
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?
Media
Prejudice? What prejudice?
- 28 June 2007
- 1 comment
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
Media
Baiting the goody-goody
- 21 June 2007
- 1 comment
When it comes to ethical standards in journalism, the BBC is in a league of its own
Media
Trapped in a parallel universe
- 14 June 2007
- 1 comment
There has surely never been a time when our papers have devoted more space to what's happening on television.
Media
The limits of Jeremy Clarkson
- 07 June 2007
As a columnist he is as coarse and intolerant as can be, but the bluster might just be hiding a real human being, for it seems that, when he wants to, he can be quite thoughtful
Human Rights
A law the government is subverting
- 04 June 2007
- 1 comment
Instead of enforcing the Contempt of Court Act and protecting defendants from trial by headline, ministers want to dilute and weaken it
