Terry Kirby

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660 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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New Books in American Studies · Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And then some sub, uh, sub, sub, sub head about, uh, you know, being discovered in her underwear in a beach side condo in, uh,

uh, somewhere in central Europe or something like that.

So, uh, it'll be a kind of gory story about some kind of gangland or crime thing in, in, uh, in, in, uh, it could be some somewhere in center.

So as I say, somewhere in central Europe, former Yugoslavia, places like that, or even, even in Australia or, or other parts of the world, uh, have nothing to do with the UK, uh,

But it's a kind of gory crime story or dramatic crime story.

Maybe there's some sex in there.

There's some drugs.

There's something else.

And they'll go into enormous details on that because also they can now run all the pictures and images and everything.

And they'll write it like it happened in London.

I'm sure you may discover similar things in Australia.

Well, I mean, specifically, the Stephen Lawrence case was seen by Paul Dacre, who was then the editor of the Daily Mail, as something... He saw it as a good cause.

There's no question about that.

But it was convenient that he...

It was something to hold up against the critics of the Daily Mail, who often accused it of both implied and obvious racism and discrimination against the black community in the UK and elsewhere.

I mean, and the Daily Mail is still very much at the forefront of that, highlighting stories about crimes by asylum seekers in the UK and so forth.

And I remember a former colleague of mine who did some work for the Daily Mail and she was sent out to report on a, she was sent out for a kind of night with the police on the beach somewhere in London as a sort of feature film.

type piece.

And she was told...

or it was made clear to her that they were really only interested in stories about asylum seekers committing or immigrants of some kind committing crimes in the story.

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