Ask how politics pays the piper to know who calls the tune
As a government sweetheart deal for big newspapers hits headlines, Jamie Beauvais asks if the concept of free and independent media has been lost.
Media Integrity
Right-wing paper rapped by fact-checkers over ‘significantly wrong’ report on EU
The piece, titled “Remoaners’ desperate warning incorrect as UK ditches EU exports” was…incorrect.
PM’s newspaper accused of ‘sick joke’ over free deal to NHS staff
The Telegraph won’t get out of recent NHS-bashing that easily…
The BBC is central to the fight against coronavirus and it’s under attack
The current crisis has shown us just how important the BBC is to our nation.
The fight to save the BBC from Tory ideologues is on
Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings is believed to be behind hostile briefings against the Beeb. But defenders of public service broadcasting are getting organised.
Another Daily Mail editor gears up to manage scrutiny of No. 10
Ex-journalists from right-wing newspapers shepherded into Tory positions of power and public influence.
Prem Sikka: The British media are failing in their duty to hold Big Finance to account
Skewed reporting of finance and politics more generally is a matter of deliberate choice, writes Prof Prem Sikka.
Campaign analysis: Let’s unpick Labour and Tory rhetoric
Examining the statements, slogans and strategies of what is being said, why it is being said, and the relationship to reality.
Parlour games and puff: the press are failing us on Brexit
What the UK needs is responsible journalism to hold politicians to account and insist that government actions are fully scrutinised, says Mary MacCallum Sullivan.
BBC invites two right-wing think tanks in a row to spout industry-crushing Brexit policy
Why do the BBC keep treating these ideologues as neutral experts?