Brian Cathcart
Articles by Brian Cathcart
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Media
Keeping Madeleine's profile high
- 28 May 2007
Alastair Campbell may not be involved, but the news management in Praia da Luz has been as sophisticated as any we have seen
Media
The price of cast iron
- 21 May 2007
Few people notice Reuters, but it is a very big player in global news and its independence matters. Now the guarantees that were once presented as cast-iron seem certain to vanish in a takeover worth more than £8bn
Media
Friends in unexpected places
- 14 May 2007
Which newspaper declared that "whatever happens, Gordon Brown will be one day remembered as a great chancellor"? Wrong. The answer is the Daily Mail. Surely this love affair can't last
Media
Sources, smears and coded messages
- 07 May 2007
The Met's most senior anti-terrorist detective says irresponsible leaks are putting lives at risk. So how can we find out who these leakers are? I know, let's ask a detective
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?
