If you are in need of a pep talk about the future of journalism and why it's actually a "golden age" that we're now witnessing then you need to listen carefully to this "Inside the NY Times" podcast featuring its Executive Editor Dean Baquet. He's not …
When the mayor of my hometown Huntington, Indiana (population 17,000) and his wife invited 30 local residents to come along to their beautifully restored grand house that they'd converted to a B & B to discuss presidential politics with m…
They might as well have turned over all of this coverage to ESPN 's sports channels as it's the same pre-game and post- game approach. There's generally the same level of analysis, dominated by paid consultants who serve as attack dogs for either Trump…
Why I have decided to take up residence in my old hometown of Huntington, Indiana, population 17,000, isn't entirely clear to me. After all, my family moved away from Huntington after I graduated from high school in 1960. I had worked out what I tho…
The one outcome of this referendum campaign that is for me indisputable is the shameful performance of most of the British press. I agree wholeheartedly with what The Guardian noted today in its editorial in support of Remain in the European Union. It…
I admire enormously Timothy Garton Ash and read carefully what he has to say each week in The Guardian as well as his insightful essays in the New York Review of Books. In his column last week, Garton Ash implored the BBC to be bolder in his coverag…
Since I posted a story about The Spectator's malicious attack on Vaughan Smith and our Frontline Club that I have the privilege of chairing, there have been some developments that I wanted to share with you. The Spectator's Toby Young who had not only…
What could be more Frontline Club than giving a platform to the associate editor of The Spectator, Toby Young, whose magazine had just trashed the Club and Vaughan Smith? Young took part in a Brexit debate. See the link to Vaughan Smith’s email to memb…
I've just been thinking about often of late I've turned to The New Yorker but not just the magazine or the beautifully crafted digital version. I'm also finding myself listening faithfully to The New Yorker podcast that like the magazine is such appeal…
I'm pleased to see that the New York Times is again featuring the kind of thoughtful media analysis that was so brilliantly written by the late David Carr ( he called his column The Media Equation) and has been so sorely missed. His replacement- writin…