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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 R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator and an adjunct scholar at the Hudson Institute. His new book is After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 13/07/11):
Do we need any other evidence that the Kultursmogexists and that it is international – at least in the English-speaking world – than the fact that the biggest news story in the United Kingdom today is also the biggest news story here? I have in mind the telephone-hacking story about NewsoftheWorldreporters in London listening in on … 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
By Michael Wolff, a columnist and author. He wrote the Man Who Owns the News, a biography of Rupert Murdoch (THE GUARDIAN, 08/07/11):
The chances that Rupert Murdoch would choose to shut a 168-year-old newspaper, a profitable one at that, are nil. The News of the World’s closure is a sure sign that the man at the top, known for calling all the shots himself, isn’t alone any more.
News Corp is a family-run company – and, more and more, a family imbroglio. Some of the intrigue: Rupert has ceded substantial power to his son James, who made the … Seguir leyendo
By Kenan Malik, a British writer and broadcaster and the author of From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/07/11):
Six years ago today, on July 7, 2005, Islamist suicide bombers attacked London’s transit system. They blew up three subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and leaving a nation groping for answers.
In one sense the meaning of 7/7 is as clear to Britons as that of 9/11 is to Americans. It was a savage, brutal attack intended to sow mayhem and terror. Yet whereas 9/11 was the work of … Seguir leyendo
Por Benigno Pendás, catedrático de Ciencia Política, Universidad CEU San Pablo (ABC, 09/05/11):
Diez días y un mundo después (porque Bin Laden ya no está), merece la pena reflexionar con sosiego sobre la boda real en Londres. Fue «nuestra última revolución», dicen los historiadores. A partir de 1689, la Monarquía parlamentaria británica es algo más que una simple forma de gobierno. Yo diría que es la genuina expresión constitucional de una sociedad civilizada. Un ilustre tratadista, sir Walter Bagehot, habla de un esquema dual: partes «solemnes» (la Corona y la Cámara de los Lores) y partes «eficientes» (el Gabinete … Seguir leyendo
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the author of The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England and Yo, Blair! (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/05/11):
“No one knows how to do pomp and circumstance like the Brits do.” An American woman was speaking, among the throng of more than a million in London on Friday morning, and it’s hard to argue with her. Even President Charles de Gaulle, no doting Anglophile, was awestruck by the sheer spectacle and precision of the Trooping the Color when in London once on the queen’s birthday.
Once again, the wedding of Prince William … Seguir leyendo
Por Pedro González-Trevijano, rector de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ABC, 02/05/11):
La boda de Su Alteza Real el príncipe Guillermo con la hasta ese momento señorita Katte Middleton, y a partir de ahora Su Alteza Real la princesa Catalina, ha despertado el habitual revuelo en los medios de comunicación británicos e internacionales. Especialmente, y no tiene sentido ocultarlo, en la prensa del corazón; pero explicita simultáneamente, y además de forma más importante, muchos de los rasgos que refrendan la vigencia de la institución monárquica. Una condición, la de princesa, que ha de saber ser asumida tanto por la … Seguir leyendo
By Anna Whitelock, a lecturer in early modern British history at Royal Holloway, University of London and the author of Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/04/11):
Amid the flag-waving and the street parties to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton today, bigger questions about the relevance of the monarchy to modern Britain lurk like uninvited guests. Extravagant living in a time of austerity abrades public sensibilities; unearned privilege is resented, while snobbery and elitism are seen as dangerously outmoded. The usual arguments in support of the monarchy — continuity, tradition and dignity … Seguir leyendo
Por Lord Garel-Jones, exministro de Asuntos Europeos y vicechambelán de la Corte, Tesorero Real y controlador de la Casa de su Majestad Británica (ABC, 27/04/11):
¡Tenemos boda! Este viernes se casa Su Alteza Real el Príncipe Guillermo con la señorita Kate Middleton. No intentaré competir con la prensa del corazón especulando sobre el traje de la novia, la lista de invitados (y no invitados) ni demás elementos del evento. Cualquier lector de la revista «¡Hola!» estaría mucho mejor informado que yo.
Basta con decir que, a partir del viernes en el caso improbable de encontrarme yo con la Princesa … Seguir leyendo
By Charles Phillips, the author of The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Kings and Queens of Britain and Barry Falls, an illustrator (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/04/11):
When Prince William and Kate Middleton marry on April 29, they will join a select group, even among royals. While the site of their wedding, Westminster Abbey, has been the place of every coronation since the Norman conquest, only 15 royal couples have been married there since it was founded in 960.
The first wedding to take place at the abbey was that of King Henry I of England and Princess … Seguir leyendo
Por Carles Casajuana (EL PAÍS, 31/03/11):
El príncipe de Gales visita oficialmente España esta semana. ¿Cómo ven los británicos el país que encontrará? ¿Hasta qué punto se ha transformado la imagen de España en el imaginario colectivo de Reino Unido en los últimos años? La mayoría de los ciudadanos británicos nos ven con una simpatía mayor de lo que nosotros solemos pensar. La palabra puede sorprender, pero es la justa. Nos ven con la misma simpatía que se siente por un compañero de escuela con el que uno se peleó a menudo y con el que, al reencontrarse al cabo … Seguir leyendo
By Jean-Pierre Chevènement, former French minister of defence and the interior, senator for the territory of Belfo (THE GUARDIAN, 26/03/11):
In the past 60 years, two major choices have shaped French foreign policy while pulling France and the UK apart: the European project begun after the second world war and built in accordance with Jean Monnet’s conception,; and national independence, as sought by Charles de Gaulle after his return to power in 1958. These two paths were contradictory, the first only comprehensible because France, having twice nearly perished during the first part of the 20th century, had such profound … Seguir leyendo
By David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (THE GUARDIAN, 13/02/11):
Naturally, I would prefer to see more positive headlines about the “big society”, but I am very upbeat about the torrent of newsprint expended on this subject.
For too long, our country has failed to have a proper debate on how we can make our society stronger and give people more power. Now it is happening. And not just in the thinktanks of Westminster and newspapers of Fleet Street. The big society has been a topic of discussion on a wider basis – from being on … Seguir leyendo