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@arusbridger
Oct 31 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
A newcomer to watch: The "UK Media Research Centre." A source told me it was intended to "pay people to write pro-Israeli articles which they then place." But one of the founders, @DannyCohen, says that's not the case... 🧵
In addition to Danny Cohen, two directors are listed: @KarenPollock100 and @LordIanAustin . The latter is listed as a director of the @JewishChron, though who actually owns that paper is a riddle wrapped in an enigma (2)
Cohen says the organisation has been set up to counter and expose extremism in all its forms, challenge extremist narratives in the media and support accurate journalism (3)
It is said to be funded by British philanthropists who care about "responsible journalism." The team will be led by @BenFelsenburg , ex Telegraph and ex Mail on Sunday (4)
A glance at Felsenburg's X timeline suggests a singular focus on the reporting of Israel. He recently reposted someone who wrote: "Write the BBC off." But, if Cohen is right, he will be more broadly focused in future
Final thought: @LordIanAustin is a curious choice to be championing a body monitoring "accurate & responsible" journalism. He has said nothing about the @JewishChron's lapse in standards, and will not say who the paper's owner is. Hmmm

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May 1
In 2011/2 MPs on the @CommonsCMSwere were probing Rupert Murdoch’s company. Result? 7 of them had their phones targeted – literally hundreds of calls from the company’s phone hub. This pattern is what @byNickDavies has been investigating for @prospect_uk (🧵 - 1)
Phone-hacking has mainly involved celebrities. But the new evidence suggests something more disturbing: that the company used the same criminal methods to get political and commercial intel ..and maybe smear MPs 2
The Murdoch company seems to have been using criminal means to target politicians of every rank, including the Attorney General, Business Secretary and Chancellor 3
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Jan 24
Gibbgate: 🧵I think Gibb is now the most important journalist at the BBC, even though he doesn’t work there. And therefore he’s one of the most important journalists in the country. 1/7
Gibb was nominated by a friend, the mysterious Downing Street fixer, Dougie Smith – even if Downing Street strangely doesn’t list him, or answer for him. He’s the Man who Never Was. 2/7
He was interviewed for the role by Samir Shah, nominated as next BBC Chair. Who has been asked by MPs to probe Gibb’s role in trying to fix the Ofcom job. 3/7
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Dec 2, 2023
So I have had a reply from the acting chair of the BBC about Robbie Gibb and his attempt to fix the chair of the BBC regulator. Highlighted in red are the bits where she answers a single one of the 15 question I asked (joke: she doesn’t) 1/4 Image
Green shows the extent of her investigation & the fact she accepts Gibb’s word that there’s nothing to worry about. Orange answers a question I didn’t ask. (2/4)
Three points: 1) I think we can now accept (because no denials) that it is true that a BBC director tried, in concert with Downing Street aides, to fix the head of the BBC’s regulator.
(3/4)
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Nov 9, 2023
I think I have found a genuine story in @NadineDorries's book, The Plot, out today. It concerns manoeuvrings to get the “right” person in to chair the supposedly independent media regulator, @ofcom (thread) (1/9 )
Dorries describes a meeting in which @RobbieGibb , former comms director for Theresa May and a BBC director, tried to persuade her to appoint Lord Stephen Gilbert, “a party apparatchik” to chair Ofcom (2/9)
Dorries thought Michael Grade was infinitely more qualified. But she was lobbied by past and present Number 10 operatives – including a “bullying” call from Douglas Smith – to back Gilbert, not Grade. (3/9)
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May 10, 2023
As another hacking trial starts (<2k settled so far) a gripping narrative of the ragtag army of former hackers and private eyes now working to avenge the victims - including Prince Harry prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…
Writer, @tomlamont , spent weeks with the poachers-turned-gamekeepers who have been working for < 10 years to help expose cases and get them into court (2)
the story still has the power to shock - and comes as Rupert Murdoch (who's forked out around £1.2bn to settle hacking claims) is, with son Lachlan, in legal trouble on three continents over crappy journalistic ethics
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Oct 8, 2018
1 (thread). Most UK papers think a drunken snog at Strictly is the most important story today. More important than a terrifying new #IPCC report saying we have 12 years to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming...
2. More important than this (from @guardian. The Independent and @washingtonpost also led on it, along with the @BBC. London Times leading on Brexit.)
3. Broadsheet editors have always been lectured on how patronising they are to believe “they know best”. So worthy to tell people what they *should* be interested in.
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