User talk:Steven Harkins

Hi Steven,

good to meet you the other day. Here are some tips.

• Go to http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=User:Steven_Harkins&action=edit and add a brief bio
• To see the new referencing style go to A Guide to Referencing
• To leave me a message edit this page: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/User_talk:David
• Let me know what subjects you are interested in on spinprofiles and I might be able to point you in the right direction.

Best

--David 22:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC) Hi Steven,

Long time no see. Welcome back!

good work on Bacardi. Well done.

Looking forward to what you do next!

--David 21:14, 20 August 2008 (BST)

The Times

Hi Steven

So glad you're taking on The Times and Murdoch in this great article.

Just a couple of points:

I seem to recall that opposition to Murdoch taking over The Times centered on some law that prevents monopolies emerging in the media? or does this law only apply in the US? Here, an MP tried to get the Competition Commission involved in the question. Would there have been a law involved, or was it something softer like some kind of precedent situation on ownership of the media?

Good starting points on this are articles at http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/opinion/29krugman.html?_r=1 and http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/may/25/rupertmurdoch.bskyb

It's fine to quote articles like this to make the point for us. I think it's worth putting in a bit about this controversy.

Also, I know it is obvious to us Spin people why media monopolies are bad, but I think it should be spelled out in a sentence or two for the public who may not be so familiar with the argument. One of the articles above makes the point, with people thinking rubbish things about the war on terror etc because they heard it on one of Murdoch's channels.

Another point--please do give complete refs rather than just urls, as they tend to go out of date quickly and then the reader has no way of finding our sources. Have a look at

http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/SpinProfiles:A_Guide_to_Referencing

Section: How to format referencing

and do them like this. Can you redo the refs already in this article according to this format? If anything isn't clear in these "Help" pages pls let me know, as I want to make it easy to follow.

Many thanks! --Claire Robinson 11:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Times

Hi Steven

just wanted to say well done on The Times and Murdoch. This is real public education and I think it's what SpinP should excel at (as well as providing material to journos of course).

--Claire Robinson 15:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Press pages

Steven

great stuff on the Times/Sunday Times and now the Mail. Are you planning to do all the papers?

Some tips: Can you try and make sure that the journalists you list are done alphabetically - I have tried to move the list in that dierction on the page on The Sunday Times. also, it would be good to use the format that is now on the S times page so that the list runs across the page?

It would also be useful if and when you have that data to add in after their names, their role at the paper and dates they were there... as this may become important later.

And - I wonder if you can ensure that you put in redirects so that all references to Daily Mail redirect to The Daily Mail etc?

And lastly I would love to see a stub p[age on the companies associated with the Mail: ie how is Associated Newspapers related to the Daily Mail and General Trust just so that people can check at a glance.

Keep up the good work. --David 09:32, 23 January 2009 (UTC)