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The Crisis in British Journalism
Byline Times investigates media monopolies, their proximity to politicians, and how the punditocracy doesn't hold power to account
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EXCLUSIVE Watchdog ‘Examining’ BBC Chairman’s Charity over Donations to Right-Wing Political Groups
Richard Sharp pumped money into a group that funds causes like the TaxPayers' Alliance, Eurosceptics and the BBC-bashing News-Watch. Now the Charity Commission is "engaging" with his foundation

Press and Police Corruption: Mail Hearing Reveals More Connections between Murders of Daniel Morgan and Stephen Lawrence
Witness statements on behalf of the claimants against Associated News plunge us straight back into what Gordon Brown once described as the ‘criminal media nexus’

Ricin and the Red Tops: How a Made-Up Terror Plot Helped the Media Build the Case for the Iraq War
Josiah Mortimer talks to a leading lawyer who took part in the 2003 ricin trials on the terror cell that never was

The Fleet Street ‘Friendlies’ Climb On Board Braverman’s Prison Ships
The Home Secretary's tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government's own failings, reports Adam Bienkov
