[John Yates, an Assistant Commissioner at the Met] I first wrote about this nearly two years ago. Since then the story has bumbled on interminably, seemingly more a tribute to the self-importance of some MPs than to its real importance. For a while it was kept going because Andy Coulson had moved from being editor [...]
[Mail] [Independent, same day] Trying to get to the source of all this welter of news, we find: No, the first two sentences are not contradictory, just confusing. Rates are falling, but populations are increasing, so numbers of deaths are rising. But the ultimate source is this paper: If you read it, you find that [...]
There was a great flurry of stories ten days ago about zebrafish providing the miracle drug for heart attacks. A small tropical fish that normally lives in the River Ganges and is commonly found in pet fish tanks could trigger a revolution in the treatment of heart disease and the end of heart-transplant surgery. [ [...]
Science journalism is notoriously bad. There are a few honourable exceptions like the Scientific American and the science articles in the Economist. Far too many journalists just quote press releases hyping up university achievements. Even articles which have obviously taken longer to write, such as interviews, are usually much closer to articles about celebrities than [...]
It elegantly encapsulated the problems of mass media. The Heene family live outside Fort Collins about 65 miles north of Denver, Colorado. Last Thursday all America watched the nail-biting footage of a runaway helium balloon drifting across Colorado from the Heene family home chased by four media helicopters. Why? Because poor little Falcon Heene, age [...]
