Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
bloggers
In case you haven’t noticed, Salam Pax, the now famous Iraqi blogger is back. Well, at least his posts are. His internet access appears to be marginal to non-existent, and he’s resorted to e-mailing a month’s worth of blogs to a friend in the US. It looks
international
You know, as a friend remarked last night while we sat drinking Diet Coke and watching cable TV, it’s really easy to forget that things are happening in other parts of the world other than the middle east. The 24-hour news channels are almost entirely devoted to Iraq, as
iraq
All over the web, you’ll find people posting that they don’t know anyone who supports the War on Iraq [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/19/npoll19.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/19/ixnewstop.html] . This recent opinion poll seems to
iraq
For any Americans not paying attention, we’ve lost a cabinet minister [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2858957.stm] from the government over the decision to abandon the UN route to disarmament. Oh, and he’s making some serious political mileage out of it, too. This
family
My brother, who is as right-wing and pro-war as you’d expect from a City of London worker, sent me a link to this animation [http://www.psycotic.net/web/time.swf][LINK NOW DEAD] last week. It’s been stuck in my head ever since. There’s no doubt
elections
There’s nothing quite like journalists in a flap to make a cold-ridden Tuesday afternoon more enjoyable. The reason for this consternation in my office was simple: a NUJ [http://www.nuj.org.uk] flyer promoting the evening’s chapel meeting. It had two items listed: update on the pay
clothes
So, the courts have ruled that forcing a man to wear a suit and tie while the women wear t-shirts and football tops is sex discrimination. Quite right, too. What gets me is that everyone seems to be reacting as if he’s trying to win the right to dress
