Check out Mike Butcher’s post over at TechCrunch UK. Fascinating. Sky News have appointed a Twitter correspondent to hunt for news stories across the service — and, I assume, across other mediums such as Facebook and so on. The correspondent is named Ruth Barnett. I trust she is equipped...

Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

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A talented broadcast journalist of the utmost integrity? The furore caused by Jeni Barnett’s irresponsible and ill-educated foray into matters medical has still not died down. Indeed, due to Jonathan Richards' inability to deal with the problem, it is now being considered at the highest level. Ear...

Stifling freedom of speech in London The debate between Ben Goldacre/Jeni Barnett has taken a turn for the worse. It seems that Jeni Barnett has received a number of personally abusive emails and is upset. LBC, oddly, has contacted Ben Goldacre to complain. As I said earlier, abusive ad hominen atta...

Jeni Barnett, the LBC radio presenter at the centre of the Goldacre/LBC case, has received ‘hundreds of extremely personal and abusive comments,’ her agent, Robert Common, confirmed to Journalism.co.uk today. “[The comments] do not address the debate about the use of MMR and that i...

Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. Smallpox, which is believed to have originated over 3,000 years ago in India or Egypt, is one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. For centuries, repeated epidemics swept across cont...

Ben Goldacre has recorded this interview with Journalism.co.uk, following initial coverage of the LBC/Jeni Barnett row last week. Read extracts or listen to the full interview at this link for ‘Goldacre’s Law’ explained; the doctor’s view on television (it’s too rude to...