The Guardian’s latest report from the Hutton inquiry shows how high the stakes were at the height of the Gilligan/Kelly affair.
An excerpt from Alastair Campbell’s diary has the spin miester writing that “It would fuck Gilligan” if David Kelly proved to be the BBC journalist’s source for his controversial WMD dossier story.
The tussle between the […]
In times like these it becomes only too obvious that news has a mythical function. News producers fall readily into the pattern of creating heroes and villains but more importantly reading and writing the news is a cultural function that brings some people into the center and casts out others to the margins.
This is a […]
American politics has always fascinated me. There is a grandeur in the way an American Presidential election is played out that makes for an intriguing story. Australian elections pale in comparison. Part of that is definitely the personalisation factor, part is the ritual that has developed around the presidency, the personification of a certain type […]
