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Back to the future for cartoonists?
Aside from cartooning, Matt Buck keeps an excellent blog. He’s been asking what the future holds for political cartoonists, given the parlous state of the print media, and he invokes the spirit of James Gillray:
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Democracy and the media go together like…
Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences). Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone…
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Courage and impotence in journalism
There is an exceptional and very poignant post from a sacked Chinese journalist translated and reproduced at the China Digital Times: I am afraid of other people praising me as a brave newspaperman, because I know I am full of fear in my heart. I did write some commentaries on current affairs, and edited some…