Brian Cathcart
Articles by Brian Cathcart
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OLD Media
When the readers go bonkers
- 11 October 2007
Editing a newspaper is all about knowing your readers and anticipating their likes and dislikes. But how can you do that when they are strongly Labour one week and Tory the next?
OLD Media
All previous statements are inoperative
- 04 October 2007
Tory papers had fun for months, baiting Cameron. Now there seems to be a hasty change of approach...
OLD Media
The Sun comes out in Bournemouth
- 27 September 2007
- 1 comment
Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?
OLD Media
For the benefit of Mr Al Fayed
- 20 September 2007
- 1 comment
The ultimate media circus is about to begin, featuring jewellers, lawyers, embalmers, spies, doctors, lost boxes and of course the proprietor of Harrods. This one will run and run
World Affairs
The greening of Greenland
- 13 September 2007
As the Arctic ice retreats, some communities find that a new way of life beckons. Greenlanders are getting their place in the sun at last, reports Brian Cathcart - but for how long?
OLD Media
Our world of rough-and-ready ethics
- 06 September 2007
Journalists in the US agonise about the smallest details, but here we prefer to use the broad brush, telling ourselves that's how the readers like it. Soon we will have to change
Books
Men of principles
- 30 August 2007
Faust in Copenhagen: a Struggle for the Soul of Physics Gino Segre Jonathan Cape, 320pp, £20
OLD Media
A spiral of excitability
- 23 August 2007
- 3 comments
It was a month when we might have expected things to calm down in the McCann story, but instead editors and reporters have been furiously barking up all the wrong trees
OLD Media
Let's hear it for Stumpy, Keano and the zorse
- 02 August 2007
Animals are the unsung heroes of the news agenda
OLD 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...
