mySociety supremo Tom Steinberg has a wonderful chart on his weblog which ranks scandal by severity and – uniquely – splits actors and actions. He asks “is it useful for anything” and I’d argue it certainly is. I clearly recall the legendary Bill Allsopp presenting us with something similar early on in our journalism course at Napier, in an effort to teach us news values. I think that, back in 1991, the Queen was atop the list of actors, and “other royalty” would have ranked much higher. But that might just mean Tom’s new list reflects today’s changing values. Wonder what Bill would make of it?
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by Neil McIntosh