We’re reminded today by David Aaronovitch in the Times of why care with English usage and knowing the rules is more than simple pedantry or being ‘cute’. And it echoes what I’ve been saying for years – some might say ad nauseam, that in allowing the governing clerical classes to get away with bad English…
Tag: power of the press
Business
Anatomy of unedifying reporting
by Dominic O'Byrne •
Anatomy of unedifying reporting The scary experience of Lord McAlpine (convicted via Trial by Twitter of child rape some 20-odd years ago) will have shocked all reasonable people and has also rightly prompted columnists among the better papers to cast a beady eye over the business of citizen journalism. But a sense of perspective is…
Political
Politicians get the media they deserve. So do we.
by Dominic O'Byrne •
Does my memory serve me right? Does anybody else recall the last 24 months or so of John Major’s administration and the role it played in enhancing the power of the press? If not, let me remind some of us… I’ll hold my hand up and admit to being one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest fans;…