Archivo etiqueta «Escándalos»

Por Timothy Garton Ash, catedrático de Estudios Europeos en la Universidad de Oxford e investigador titular en la Hoover Institution de la Universidad de Stanford. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (28/11/11):

Como si fuera una comisión de la verdad, la investigación oficial sobre el escándalo de las escuchas telefónicas en Reino Unido está dejando al descubierto los horrores de un mal pasado reciente. Damos gritos de asombro al oír todas esas historias de intromisión e intimidación, la angustia de una madre, un niño que se vio empujado a quitarse la vida. Pero estamos hablando de Reino Unido; por … Seguir leyendo

By Brian Cathcart, professor of journalism at Kingston University London and was a founder of the Hacked Off campaign (THE GUARDIAN, 16/08/11):

Tom Watson MP said the new material was devastating and he was not exaggerating. Difficult though it may be to believe, documents released by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee are at least as damaging to News International management as the revelation last month that Milly Dowler’s voicemail had been hacked. That news prompted disgrace and resignations: now we are looking at possible criminal charges at senior levels.

Assuming that these documents hold up … Seguir leyendo

By Stephen Marche, the author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/07/11):

At the hearing into the News of the World phone hacking scandal in London this past Tuesday, the commissioner of Scotland Yard did something unusual for a policeman. He quoted Shakespeare. Explaining the swiftness of his resignation, he mangled a bit of Macbeth: “If ’twere best it were done, ’twere well it were done quickly.” The reference was perfectly fitting for a scandal whose defining adjective is coming to be “Shakespearean.”

Many have noted superficial similarities between the scandal and Shakespearean tragedy: overheard messages, … Seguir leyendo

By Ian Rickson, a British theatre and film director. He was the artistic director at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 1998 to 2006 (THE GUARDIAN, 22/07/11):

Who owns a pause? Sometimes it is hard to say. If a powerful 80-year-old magnate chooses not to answer a question for 50 seconds is it because he is hopelessly out of his depth or because his contempt for the charade he is being obliged to tolerate means he will take as long as he likes before he offers a monosyllable or two?

Perhaps a pause held long enough will curdle … Seguir leyendo

By Ryan Linkof, a lecturer in history at the University of Southern California who wrote a doctoral dissertation on the origins of tabloid photojournalism in Britain (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/07/11):

As long as we have had tabloids, we have had tabloid scandals.

Weighing in on the spate of scandals plaguing the British tabloid press, one commentator in 1936 acidly condemned what he called “the almost unbelievable indecency of the intrusion of the tabloid newspaper into people’s private lives.” Surely only the most degraded, low-minded people, he claimed, could produce this kind of news.

The article, from the magazine … Seguir leyendo

Por Jaume Guillamet, catedrático de Periodismo de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (EL PAÍS, 19/07/11):

Una lectura superficial de la crisis de News of the World podría dar una impresión equivocada de la prensa británica. Podría incluso dar pie a una mirada de superioridad, autocomplaciente e injustificada, ante los graves incumplimientos de los principios profesionales del periodismo y las evidentes infracciones de la deontología profesional que han llevado al cierre patronal voluntario del periódico de mayor difusión de Reino Unido. Un análisis atento del caso sugiere algunas lecciones que vale la pena considerar, procedentes de la tradición periodística … Seguir leyendo

Por Toni Mollà, periodista (EL PERIÓDICO, 19/07/11):

El caso News of the World y la política informativa de la News Corp. de Rupert Murdoch en el Reino Unido ha devuelto a la actualidad el viejo debate sobre los límites de los poderes del canon Montesquieu, por una parte, y el derecho a la información y la libertad de expresión, por otra. De paso, ha dirigido el foco sobre la sombreada zona de intersección de estos dos opuestos, donde se cuecen intereses comunes no siempre confesados ni demasiado visibles para los ciudadanos. Conviene recordar en este sentido que la información … Seguir leyendo

Por Timothy Garton Ash, catedrático de Estudios Europeos en la Universidad de Oxford, investigador titular en la Hoover Institution de la Universidad de Stanford. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 18/07/11):

Los dramáticos sucesos de Reino Unido han penetrado incluso el caparazón de un país como Estados Unidos, obsesionado consigo mismo. Desde Stanford veo cómo el legendario periodista Carl Bernstein los compara con Watergate. En un programa matinal de televisión, Hugh Grant hace un llamamiento a los estadounidenses para que se den cuenta de la perniciosa influencia de Rupert Murdoch en los medios de comunicación de su … Seguir leyendo

By Mike Hoyt, the executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 17/07/11):

A few years ago my old boss, David Laventhol, had an extended conversation with Rupert Murdoch about newspapers. It was after some sort of big-deal journalism dinner, and they talked long after the tired waiters wished they’d go. David had a storied career in newspapers. He helped invent the Style section of the Washington Post when he was a young editor there. He was editor and publisher of Newsday, publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of Times Mirror, finishing his career with … Seguir leyendo

By A. C. Grayling, a philosopher and the author, most recently, of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/07/11):

Intellectuals in Britain have always regarded Rupert Murdoch with suspicion. His rise to prominence on the media scene in the 1980s coincided with a brutal yearlong lockout of newspaper workers, aimed at breaking the traditional hold of their labor unions. In the dominant position he subsequently gained, with four major newspapers and a large stake in television, he began to exercise significant influence over the political scene, and even greater influence on the down-market end of … Seguir leyendo

By Geoffrey Robertson QC, head of Doughty Street Chambers and the co‑author of Robertson and Nicol on Media Law (THE GUARDIAN, 08/07/11):

So farewell then, News of the World. We will remember Squidgygate and Camillagate, the buying up of witnesses (“blood money”), the “kiss and sell” affairs, the celebrity hacks and most recently the phone hacking. Its editors have been “drinking at the last chance saloon” for 30 years, which should enter the record books as the longest swill in history.

It saw off the powerless Press Council, replaced by the worthless Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Nothing has … Seguir leyendo