Peter Bale - curated media, journalism, news - why I love Michael Wolff
I count Michael as a friend though I know nothing is off the record. He writes with fluidity and style and is right more often than not. He also despises the "church of journalism" that thinks he doesn't cut it. I also rather like the way Ben describes their relationship with humour.
It once had some great scoops but does it now? AT&T really has been a shitty media owner though as most people knew it would be. Telecoms companies really have a long record of failing to understand media.
The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.
I found most 911 remembrance pieces unbearable but this is excellent and gave me some new reading material. I think the Coll one is the only one I have actually read and it is superb. The lines in here about Bush and Rumsfeld, torture, and the folly of Iraq are powerful and instructive. Much of media is culpable but much media also exposed it at the time.
I supported some form of this when asked by Facebook when I was helping them with something: people need to be able to see what elected political figures (critical distinction) really think -- even if it is odious.
Andrew is a total operator but clearly was outfoxed (yep) by Angelos, the CEO, who decided to go in a different direction. Farage is no Neil and is appalling gargoyle who will say anything: see his views on Romanians and his rather contrasting praise for Emma Raducanu.
I suspect this may be self-regarding but I quite like the look of some of these people when I have finished reading The Atlantic, The New Yorker and all the other sources of well-reported, slightly smug, reporting that is often brilliant and which I was capable of myself.
Oh, the irony of going after the whistleblower. It happens so often.
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Quite a good analysis and it will be interesting to see who replaces Fran Unsworth who has run the news team through difficult times but whom I fear has sometimes not given the strength we might have wished.
I will believe this when I see it reflected in The Australian and on Sky Australia in any accurate and meaningful way.
We are fortunate to have some of the serious foreign media organisations -- and I do include Al Jazeera in that despite the risks of being too close to the Taliban at some stage through its Qatar origins -- still in Afghanistan but those who bear the brunt of course are the locals.
Quite an interesting take -- see earlier on the books.
Far from this condemning the BBC it shows they have process and criteria by which they judge and analyse their own work and own mistakes.