by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Two weeks ago Friday, David Brooks – upon learning that the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen to 7.7% in February with over 200,000 new jobs added – told Judy Woodward on the Newshour that if one combined the good jobs news with the bad...
by John C. Dyer | Mar 16, 2013 | Monitor
By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent I have vivid memories of the night of 13 December 1984. On 13 December 1984 Beyond War and the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio jointly presented “Spacebridge." I was there. Spacebridge A crisp clear...
by John C. Dyer | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent A press conference the morning of 7 Jan 2013 began a week of headlines good, bad and ugly for the Coalition. The relaunch of the good ship lollypop David Cameron and that other fellow held a press conference 7 Jan 2013. They...
by John C. Dyer | Nov 30, 2012 | Monitor
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...
by John C. Dyer | Nov 26, 2012 | Monitor
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...