Julian Petley responds to the Ofcom discussion paper ‘Citizens, Communications and Convergence’.

Julian Petley reviews Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News, and suggests that the reception of the book in the mainstream predictably fails to identify the deeper issues raised by the problems with contemporary journalism documented by Davies.

Julian Petley reviews Anthony Brown’s The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain

An analysis of the British press’s response to the Danish cartoons affair and of the issues raised by it.

The hate-filled content of the British mass media, along with the closeness of the relationship between the media and government, make it more appropriate to describe much of them as a Fifth Column of the racist Right rather than a representative, liberal ‘fourth estate’.