Category Archives: Scoop

Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The journalism website of the  Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Storyboard, carries an article by Michael Fitzgerald that cites a brief episode of Scoop as an example of a phenomenon that should be avoided by future journalists. This is known as “confirmation bias:”  There’s … Continue reading →

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Country Life in the Plashy Fen

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

An article in this week’s Spectator recounts the successful career of Country Life magazine. This is on the occasion of the BBC2’s production of a 3-part documentary on how the magazine is put together. The article is written by Nigel … Continue reading →

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Scoop

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The New York ticket website ZEALnyc has compared the new film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to Waugh’s novel Scoop. The film is based on the memoir Taliban Shuffle by foreign correspondent Kim Baker and stars TV actress Tina Fey. I must tell you that the comparison is not … Continue reading →

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Waugh Removed from Time Magazine Top Women Author List

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Earlier today Evelyn Waugh was trending on Twitter as readers noticed that he was included on Time magazine’s list of the top 100 women authors compiled from an analysis of college syllabuses. The New York Observer story illustrates Waugh’s original listing … Continue reading →

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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

D.J. Taylor in the Independent announces low expectations for the BBC’s plans to revive its 1970s sit. com. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. The plan is to have the 74 year old Michael Crawford reprise his role as youthfully naive Frank Spencer among a … Continue reading →

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David Cameron Learns from Lord Copper

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Blogger Roger Mac Ginty, who is also Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Manchester, compares press coverage of the recent UK-EU negotiations to a Waugh novel: There was something very scripted about David Cameron’s EU negotiations on Thursday and … Continue reading →

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Boot Magna School of Economics

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A reporter for the Idaho Statesman is reminded of a character from Scoop in a recent story: Robert Gordon’s new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” is masterful, but reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Comedian Ben Miller Names Waugh Among Favorites

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The online edition of the Daily Mail carries an interview by Gwendolyn Smith of British comedian Ben Miller for the paper’s Event Magazine. Miller recently appeared in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise and has previously been seen in the … Continue reading →

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Source of Azania

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent debate started on the Facebook page of a South African politician has migrated to the op ed pages of the newspapers. Earlier this month, Tito Mboweni, a retired Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, proposed that the name … Continue reading →

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Waugh, Boyd and Manning

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic  and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading →

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