Sucking up to Politicians

Posted on by Tom Fleming

George Munster, a distinguished Australian journalist, died late in 1984, a year before his book was first published in Sydney. Since then, Rupert Murdoch has abandoned satellite television in America, expanded it in Europe, bought 20th Century-Fox and a chain of American television stations, sold The Village Voice, made a fortune out of ‘greenmail’, lost […]

The Sunday Times

Posted on by David Gelber

Penelope Gilliat used to say the characteristic sound of an English Sunday was Harold Hobson, theatre critic of the Sunday Times, barking up the wrong tree. Times have changed. At the brash, nouveau right Sunday Times the characteristic sound of a Tuesday morning is fair-minded reporters, especially those unfortunate enough to have had anything to […]

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