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The tragic stories 'hidden in plain sight' that go unreported

Edit The Guardian 23 Feb 2016
Roy Greenslade. Gary Younge explores journalistic failings in his powerful Cameron lecture. Contact author. @GreensladeR. Here is a sample of tweets about Gary Younge’s Cameron lecture at City University London on Monday evening. “Insightful and fascinating... fantastic... excellent, intelligent and sensitive... Sure, Gary is the Guardian’s editor-at-large and it may be thought more than a little parti pris for me to praise a colleague ... ....

Investigating NOAA’s Dodgy Scientists Is ‘Intimidation’

Edit Breitbart 07 Nov 2015
It thinks that NOAA’s dodgy, data-fudging, parti-pris scientists should be allowed to go on spending taxpayers’ money on green propaganda unimpeded by the scrutiny of pesky skeptics like Rep Lamar Smith (R-Tex) ... As he puts it....

More Bad News for Climate Alarmists: Another Study Confirms Africa’s Deserts are Getting Greener (Tea ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2015
(Source. Tea Party Inc) ... Special Headline. Guess Who's About To Go Bankrupt in America [Learn More] ... After The Sahel Is Greening report, it hurried out a furious, pseudo-erudite rebuttal drawing on all its favourite parti-pris sources ... SPECIAL ... Please sign your TEA PARTY WAR PLEDGE and donate to fund our continuing fight!. This led to its deliciously petulant conclusion ... In other words ... distributed by. This content was issued by Tea Party Inc....

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara review – relentless suffering

Edit The Guardian 18 Aug 2015
A very 90s angst permeates this relentlessly harrowing human epic, favourite to win the Man Booker prize ... They are godless (god is left uncapitalised throughout the novel) and postmodern – “Ambition is my only religion,” says JB – and live in a giddy whirl of parties and erudite conversation ... A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life ... ....

The BBC must take its responsibility seriously

Edit The Daily Telegraph 11 Jun 2015
The BBC's headquarters in London Photo. AP. By Telegraph View. 6.35AM BST 11 Jun 2015. Comments ... The BBC denied that it failed to demonstrate impartiality, even if there were those who felt that as a British broadcaster it was entitled to be parti pris ... Eurosceptics, and they are by no means all in the Conservative Party, believe the pro-EU culture is so ingrained inside the BBC that a balanced view will be impossible to achieve ... View....

It's time to recognise the virtues of the British Journalism Review

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2015
Roy Greenslade. The quarterly magazine that should be essential reading for all journalists. Alex Crawford and Alan Yentob on stage at the Charles Wheeler event on Thursday. Photograph. Liz Vercoe. Friday 5 June 2015 11.22 BST Last modified on Friday 5 June 2015 11.24 BST. Too few journalists, and too few journalist educators and their students, take an interest in the British Journalism Review (BJR) ... BJR ... Sure, I’m parti pris ... comments ... ....

Roy Greenslade: Flawed Operation Elveden has been a sorry saga from start to finish

Edit London Evening Standard 22 Apr 2015
Much more significant than these parti pris views was the statement by Lord Macdonald, a former DPP, who thought it had been an error to prosecute the journalists for paying public officials because the CPS had failed to take enough account of the public interest. He said ... ....

Labour's silence on the Mirror group hacking scandal is deafening

Edit The Guardian 06 Mar 2015
Party’s leadership and MPs are wrong to ignore the new hacking revelations. Hacking at Trinity Mirror’s newspapers has been ignored by the Labour party ... As the wife of Les Hinton, the former News International executive chairman who resigned from Rupert Murdoch’s organisation in the wake of the hacking revelations, she is parti pris....

When will the Church speak up for the dispossessed, and those that our political system ...

Edit The Independent 02 Mar 2015
1. They weren’t paved with gold; 2 ... The Catholic leader, the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Nichols, insisted from both the pulpit and the Andrew Marr Show that our political parties “have to be tested” on their policies towards immigration ... Yes, the Church is not meant to be party pris, but surely it is supposed to be the organisation that speaks up for the dispossessed, the poorest, those that our political system leaves behind? ... ....

Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?

Edit The Guardian 06 Feb 2015
For the historians of the 1970s and 1980s, and not just in Germany itself, it was important to remain as objective as possible, particularly in view of the political bias and right-wing parti pris of the older tradition of historical writing that had led German historians to sympathise with the Nazis and then, after the war, to try to argue that ......

Patrick Cockburn: ‘An effective terrorist attack requires the complicity of governments’

Edit The Guardian 24 Jan 2015
The prizewinning reporter talks about his famous father, writing with his son and his new book about Islamic state. 'Politically charged but not impassioned' … Patrick Cockburn. Photograph. Martin Godwin for the Guardian. David Shariatmadari ... Though less parti pris than his father – he tells me he has never been a member of the Communist or any other political party – Cockburn’s formative years also led him to some radical conclusions ... PR....

Can art still shock?

Edit The Guardian 23 Jan 2015
In a minor article on Olympia by a minor hack, A Bonnin, a rumour is reported that Manet’s painting was just “a parti pris on his part, a sort of ironic defiance hurled at the jury and the public” ... When a moderate Muslim Brotherhood party becomes increasingly popular in the polls, the two centrist parties become increasingly marginalised....

The strange and brilliant fiction of Hilary Mantel

Edit The Guardian 17 Jan 2015
Mantel was writing novels for decades before her literary stardom – all of which display her dark wit and stylistic skill ... Hilary Mantel. Illustration. original painting by Louise Weir for the Guardian. John Mullan ... So the novel begins ... Though there are critical non-believers, Wolf Hall and its sequel have found a huge readership, endorsing the judgment of the Booker judges (I am parti pris, as I was one of those judges in 2009) ... Topics ... ....
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