In this third edition of their classic study of the political commercial, or "polispot," veteran media analysts Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates reveal the backstage stories of the 1988 presidential campaign - the Ailes-Atwater media mastery, the Dukakis team's babel of TV voices, Willie Horton's tra[...]
In 1856, a baying crowd of over 30,000 people gathered outside Stafford prison to watch the hanging of Dr. William Palmer, "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey" as Charles Dickens once called him. Palmer was convicted of poisoning and suspected in the murders of dozens of others, [...]
What will we remember of 2012? The Olympic and Paralympic Games? The Queen's Diamond Jubilee? The faltering of the Arab Spring and the unfolding tragedy of Syria? Occupy London? The Bankers (again)? Leveson? Whatever the news, "Guardian" writers were there, every step of the way, with their unique a[...]