News Sleuth Mugs

"Get all the information you can, we'll think of a use for it later."

"Now here's my co-anchor, Nancy, with a conflicting account of that very same story."

Political Journalism

'Jump, it's a quiet news day.'

Reporter #1: telephone wire.

'These days, it's hard to tell whom to trust - T.V. news, or your social network. . .'

News vendors selling their respective newspapers. The News of the World vendor is selling the Big Issue.

"It says here that social media companies will do something to stop fake news."

News reporters sitting on news about media monopolies.

'Arthur I don't think the Editor mean't that! When he said hack into some phones.'

'If I see one more quote from a source not wanting to be identified, I'm canning our company newsletter.'

Civil Liberties.

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

'So you're my anonymous tipster? I'd prefer not to know your identity so I won't go to jail for protecting a source.'

'An investigative journalist?..So you're really a busybody.'

"Depressed, lost, unsure who you can believe, paranoid about everybody lying to you...this sort of thing is very common at the moment, I'd advise you to avoid listening or watching any more party political broadcasts."

Freedom of the Press

No. 10 deals with a critical news media

Covidiom: The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.

'I'd always wondered where journalists spent the silly season.'

'What's the matter with you? How can we hide it from the press? We are the press!'

'What's the matter with you? How can we hide it from the press? We are the press!'

'To save money we will be replacing our reporters with bloggers, who will work for free.'

'So the cash did go through the books after all.' (Newspaper reports claims 'Publisher named as Labour donor').

School of journalism and politics.

Headlines found to be inaccurate

"More misinformation."

Squeezing the Free Press.

"The report is clear that cyber crime is on the increase, it's a worry."

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"He's the chief watchdog, who watches over all the other watchdogs—but this must be his night off."

"Excuse me, Professor. I think I might have spotted a flaw in your theory!"

'There's too much corruption in the third world.'

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.