Theresa May and press coverage
It is interesting and dispiriting to note that, as with every other female politician in the country, May’s political career has been predominantly defined by her gender.
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Media
Commentary, debate and opinion about the UK Media industry
Goodbye Jeremy Kyle Show – Hello Surjury
As Kyle’s show ends, Surjury has been commissioned. The show will have a jury of “peers and experts” deliberating on whether members of a group of young people deserve to have plastic surgery.
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Vitriol and bluster – another week in political communication
We seem to be in an age where sketchy undeliverable promises and personal bombast are lauded in some quarters as positive traits.
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Protests in Hong Kong and the Responsibilities of International Media
Let’s all pay full respect to those protesters and their voices, but the only way to legitimise their passion is to seek a productive solution going forward.
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Coke is it in the Tory party leadership contest.
Conservative leadership race: How controversy stalks Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.
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Can you wake up after decades in a coma? The story behind the headlines
A car crash left Munira Abdulla with devastating brain injuries. However, almost three decades after her initial injury, Abdulla showed signs of recovery – including calling out her son’s name.
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Still over the moon and sick as parrots?
Cliché and mediatised sport go hand in hand.
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Lessons of Christchurch?
How should the media cover the Christchurch atrocity?
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New documentary, old story
In all the interviews, insights and reconstructions of the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann the only thing that matters is that she has never been found.
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World what day?
International Women’s Day and World Book exist in a crowded field of days and months devoted to particular causes.
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