When asked to argue on TV, radio or on a platform, I usually sketch out 10 propositions which are worth trying to get across. (There’s a section like this on the archive site too.)
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 2 September 2009. No comments.
Sending Mr al-Megrahi home to Libya has produced one of the most interesting muddles and mysteries of our time. I don’t think we can trust anyone in authority to tell us what they really think. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / RDN's media cribsheets on 25 July 2009. No comments.
The BBC’s The Big Questions has asked me on to discuss consumerism. Presumably they want me to defend it and I’m pretty happy to do that. Of course, I intend to be a little mealy-mouthed. I am very happy to defend affluence and inequality. I think people do little harm and much good as consumers, but I suppose consumerism is one degree too materialist to be wholly satisfactory. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / RDN's media cribsheets on 16 June 2009. No comments.
I told Radio 5’s breakfast show that Lord Carter’s proposal of a shift of a small, marginal BBC budget toward the ITV regional news operation at least had the merit of breaking the principle of BBC monopoly on state funding. Otherwise, it’s not all that clever. Locals should pay for local journalism, and probably use cheaper dissemination than TV. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 30 January 2009. No comments.
Patrick Hosking in The Times and John Gapper in the Financial Times both say interesting things about Davos Man. But they leave the impression that Mr Schwab’s elite festival was about boosting the egos of corporate giants. The real Davos Mistake was quite other. More »
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 18 January 2009. No comments.
A Radio 4 show is interviewing me about modern protest, not least because the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights is nearing the end of its inquiry into policing and protest. More »
Posted by RDN under RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 4 December 2008. No comments.
It seems tasteless to look at the misery inflicted on two young girls from the point of view of the media coverage given to them. And yet these cases may be linked by the media attention they achieved. That is tasteless. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 30 November 2008. No comments.
BBC Radio 4’s iPM show asked me comment on their finding that people might be prepared to pay (an average of) £143 for BBC services. I replied that with a National Trust of the Airwaves they might pay less and get more. More »
Posted by RDN under RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 22 November 2008. No comments.
Do the media set a perverse agenda – or do they faithfully record events with a serious sense of priorities? More »
