Welcome to the fourth instalment of the New Statesman‘s 12 Days of Blog-mas. (Christmas Eve’s round up, of our best writing on religion, is here.)
At the beginning of the year, it looked like it would unfold much like the one before. Phone hacking, and the fallout from it, were still very much in the headlines, and the Leveson inquiry looked like it would keep the focus on the tabloid press. But by December, it appeared that last year’s hunted were this year’s hunters, as the BBC came under fire for a series of journalistic failings. Here are a selection of our best pieces – click the headlines to open them in a new window.
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