ARCHIVE ▸ RAYMOND SNODDY
20 Apr 2016
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale may have now become a focus for the press - but we have to look very closely at each and every motivation for penning articles about him.
13 Apr 2016
Did the press enter into a Faustian pact to ensure favourable regulation from Government? Raymond Snoddy asks why newspapers failed to bite when given a very juicy story.
06 Apr 2016
Based on a chapter from the new book What Price Channel 4?, Raymond Snoddy reveals details about a radical, but failed plan concocted by the Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport.
30 Mar 2016
Is the Boston Globe, renowned for its investigative journalism, about to go down the same route as The Independent, wonders Raymond Snoddy.
23 Mar 2016
As the UK's TV audience measurement body releases its first ever Television Landscape Report, Raymond Snoddy crunches the digits for himself.
16 Mar 2016
The Sun's 'Queen Backs Brexit' headline is almost certainly so exaggerated as to amount to inaccuracy, writes Raymond Snoddy - so what does it mean for both the newspaper and the regulators?
09 Mar 2016
Curiously, the Brexit debate and the disruptions that are likely to accompany the June referendum, could actually save Channel 4 from the threat of privatisation, writes Raymond Snoddy.
02 Mar 2016
How is it that almost all published consultancy reports somehow manage to come up with conclusions that chime with the instincts of their paymasters?
Whatever the papers say, it is very likely the 'Scottish referendum effect' will come into play and produce a vote for the status quo, writes Raymond Snoddy.
BBC Three has gone online-only this week, and the Independent newspaper is set to follow suit in March - but let no-one think it is a neat, futuristic thing or anything other than second best.
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