Category: media

Rare Specimen

My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough

The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.

As an astonishing scandal in Canada shows, journalists who should be challenging power work instead on its behalf.

How the media shafted the people of Scotland.

The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom.

How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.

The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.

Misleading claims by Discovery and other channels help to fuel wildlife massacres.

Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists.

The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for.

How to ensure that journalists don’t listen to you.

The shocking standards of tabloid weather reporting.

Christopher Booker’s undisclosed interests illustrate the need for transparency in journalism.

The weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail and other papers don’t appear to exist.

How weather forecasts became a political issue.

The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression.

It is hard to think of a bigger cock-up than the one the magazine’s editor has just made.

This is why I’ve declared my financial interests, and why I believe other journalists should do the same.

How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?

Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?