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British Journalism Review
Volume 18(1), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Cathcart, Brian Deepcut: the media messed up 7-12
 
  Reporters and the public were outwitted after the mysterious deaths of young soldiers at the Surrey Barracks, writes Cathcart: "Knowing what we now know (and that is still less than half the picture), we should expect people to be held to account." The author believes that, "at the very heart of this scandal has been the withholding of information - reporters, families and the public have been kept in the dark" and he warns: "All this may be history now...but it is not without current resonance 
 
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Langdon, Julia Major voice, minor key 13-21
 
  In a rare interview, the former Prime Minister begins by making an off-hand disparaging remark about the inaccurate press reports of his purchase of his London apartment and goes on to talk about the nature of the press during his term of office and as it is today 
 
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Waghorn, Dominic Out of China, into the light 23-27
 
  Foreign correspondent Waghorn compares long-term assignments in China and Israel and observes: "Whereas in China the challenge was engaging the viewers' interest in somewhere so unfamiliar and alien, here [Israel] it is keeping them interested in somewhere they find over familiar 
 
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Routledge, Paul Meeting spin with spin 29-33
 
  There is a new breed of trades union press journalists - and they are fast breeders, writes Routledge 
 
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Neale, Greg Growing strong from the Acorn 34-38
 
  Historian Neale writes that, "today, as it begins its second century, the NUJ is in relatively good health, after surviving several crises - political and financial - in the 1980s and 1990s.. 
 
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Maury, Laurel It's a fact - Brits don't check 39-44
 
  There are many things to admire about the British press, believes Maury, an American, but accuracy isn't one of them 
 
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Millar, Fiona For the sake of the children 45-49
 
  Charities need to be adroit if they want to use the media to get coverage for serious issues, writes Millar, chair of the Family and Parenting Institute, but more important is "trying to unpick the increasingly tangled relationship that is developing between parents, the media and public policy makers as the very private act of parenting becomes a very public business." There is a deluge of parenting magazines, most newspapers have their dedicated sections and there are many TV programmes - in fact only radio appears to be lagging behind 
 
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Andreadis, Eleni, and Smith, Joe Beyond the Oozone Layer 50-56
 
  Despite occasional pockets of climate change scepticism, the days when journalists would report on climate change by balancing "pro" and "sceptic" voices, or by knocking the human-induced climate change argument with prominent coverage of an alternative theory, already seem a distant memory in the UK, claim the authors 
 
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Thornhill, Matt Let's hear it for the Boomers 57-62
 
  The president and founder of the Boomer Project has the answer to newspaper circulation problems: "For the last 10 or so years, as the internet has become a major part of daily life, newspapers in the United States have been struggling with the loss of the young adult reader - those 18 to 34 year olds 
 
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Nicholson, Lindsay Can journalists keep the faith? 63-68
 
  "I have been wondering lately whether God has got himself a Max Clifford-style press agent, " writes Nicholson, a practising Christian 
 
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Niblock, Sarah Movie journalists: Hello Hollywood 69-75
 
  Journalists on film have for decades offered fantasy, fun and escapism to millions, writes academic Niblock, but most of the movies have emerged from Hollywood 
 
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