Across the pond

When I got back to London today I happened upon the blog of my head of department at City University, Adrian Monck. It was a blatant piece of self-publicity for the book he is writing with an Australian, to be called, ‘Can you trust the media?”

This is a disgrace for City University. And a disgrace for British journalism, because Monck professes to be a ‘journalist’.

Allthough he obviously does not have any of the characteristics of the people who I have learnt from.

City University is now, by a long way, the leading university training journalists. It numbers amongst its alumnae the present editor of The Daily Telegraph and the present editor of The Times.

And also a rather well known television bloke, Dermot Murnaghan.

If you go into Monck’s blog, you will see that as part of his self-publicity, he includes a quote from Dermot  Murnaghan, suggesting that he, Monck,  is a totally trustworthy chap.

I actually know Dermot rather better than Monck, because I taught him when he came to City University, when he was struggling to complete a Ph D thesis.

So I do not think it likely that he would want to aid the self advertising by Monck.

But I may be wrong.

But judge for yourself.

Just read what Monck writes.