Center for Strategic Communication

By fear or favour once more let down

By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent 30 November 2012.  Yesterday Judge Leveson delivered his long awaited report into Media ethics.   It was hardly the storming of the Bastille. The Judge seemed to some to lean over backwards to shield the police, Ministers and the...

Here comes the Judge

25 November 2012.   Judge Leveson will soon release his long anticipated report on Press Practices. You would have thought the Luftwaffe had suddenly appeared over the English Channel.  Observers widely and wildly anticipate some form of press regulation. For weeks...

Benghazi: So Many Questions, So Few Answers

By Patricia H. Kushlis As the tragic news trickled – then flooded – out of Benghazi last week in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the US Mission in Benghazi (it has yet to receive Consulate status), circumstances surrounding the burning of that building and the...

Leveson’s Unfinished Business

By: John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent  27 June 2012.  Testimony in “Module 3” of the Leveson Inquiry is due to end this week.     In July the Inquiry will move on from its Module 3 focus on the relationship between the press and politicians. The focus of Module 4...