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Peter Preston
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Latest Articles by Peter Preston
Peter Preston: The US media should speak out on the conflict in Gaza
Forget, alas, all the usual stuff about fairness, balance and freedom of independent thought. Merely follow Editor and Publisher magazine's own accounting for the firs...
Peter Preston: Regionals face far more than a local difficulty
Forget the din a couple of months ago when the BBC - upgrading its websites - wanted to slice a little of the local news trade away from our suffering local and region...
Peter Preston: The Newspaper Proprietor of the Year award is dead
Sadly, the crunch claims another victim. This column's renowned Newspaper Proprietor of the Year award is dead (or at least deep frozen) in the face of constant calami...
Peter Preston: We might not care for it, but we must share
One of Fleet Street's sagest elder statesmen, looking only a few years down the track, talks contraction on a wincing scale. One not-too-distant day, he reckons, there...
Peter Preston: without change, Radio 4 dies, like its faithful supporters
Who now remembers the absurd row when Fritz Spiegl's sweet little compote of English folk tunes got dropped from the start of Radio 4's daily broadcast diet? You might...
Peter Preston: Espionage and corgis in BBC's Spooks
There is a simple difficulty here, a headbanger for desperate scriptwriters. We've had London threatened by Balkan gangs, Iranian zealots and renegade Russians with bo...
Peter Preston: It's owners, not papers, that are the problem
When three of America's greatest dailies - the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun - plus the rest of the mighty Tribune Group fold into Chapt...
Peter Preston: Will Obama realise that being elected is not an end in itself
In the normal run of things, you'd expect to find British spin doctors - for Brown, for Cameron - taking their seats in the convention stalls for America's big electio...
Peter Preston: Why have we forgotten what freedom is?
The right honourable gentleman in question began working life as a journalist. Damian Green reported for the BBC and the Times, then edited business coverage at Channe...
Review: The Man Who Owns The News by Michael Wolff
There is one big question about the 50 hours of taped interviews with Rupert Murdoch that give this book its special cachet. How can so little Mr Murdoch actually says...
Peter Preston: Life on Mars isn't planet YouTube
It seemed a great chance for Fleet Street to put its best foot forward. Here was a pre-Budget newsstand bonanza, with most of the qualities selling 4 or 5 per cent ext...
Peter Preston: Look again and Fleet Street's disasters may only be on paper
Trinity Mirror has frozen the wages for all its staff through 2009 (pretty depressing for any regional reporter on a salary no first-year primary school teacher would ...
