PJ O’Rourke joked in his book ‘Holidays in Hell’ that a certain hotel in Albania was highly rated by journalists for the fact that the cocaine on sale in its nightclub was no better or worse than in London or New York, and that the reception staff were amenable to disguising bar tabs as laundry [...]
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Pichikatero journalism
Posted in coca, UK press, tagged narco on August 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Good Journalism, Bad Journalism
Posted in land reform, oriente, UK press, Uncategorized on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Let’s start with the bad stuff first, shall we? A video report telling us that large landholders don’t like the new agrarian reform much. You know what? British MPs don’t like the new focus on their expenses much, either, because it shows some of them to be grasping, out-of-touch toerags who think they’re above the [...]
‘Only two newspapers tell the truth, the Morning Star and the Financial Times’
Posted in dodgy dealings, UK press on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So a friend who works in the City told me the other evening, anyway. Which means I shouldn’t have been quite so astonished at the Financial Times coverage of the referendum, which is both balanced and informative. (The coverage in the Morning Star, we’ve already established, is top-notch (-; ) Evo Morales, Bolivia’s popular leftwing [...]
Starry Starry Morning
Posted in UK press on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Awesome! The new constitution has been approved in the referendum – as of the time of writing, the official count by the National Electoral Court gives the Yes vote 59.53%, with 69% of the vote counted. It’s enough to be decisive already, but as votes from remote rural areas are counted and included, the percentage [...]
What the crap, Daily Telegraph?
Posted in UK press on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wasn’t necessarily expecting approval, Telegraph, I mean, I know you better than that. A bit of distortion, a bit of pro-right wing slant, I thought I could handle it. But when you start out with an article that gets it mostly right, even with a hint of sympathy, it makes it all the more [...]
