December 31, 2008
General
As I’m getting ready to close out this annis horribilis I read this beautfiully crafted piece from Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian. It candidly chronicles the issues surrounding its botched reporting of Tesco’s tax avoidance schemes in the middle of 2008 and the difficulties the paper had in unraveling the story. While [...]
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April 13, 2008
General
I see John Kavanagh is in pugnacious form over the Tesco/Guardian libel match: It seems that we have reached a stage where the rhetoric of journalists, fuelled by their constant pursuit of scandal and inspired by the tendentious writings of self-appointed experts like Richard Murphy, Prem Sikka and their like, has been so successful in [...]
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