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Why informing the public doesn’t always work…
In case you missed this little gem from the Washington Post: Long-term memories matter most in public health campaigns or political ones, and they are the most susceptible to the bias of thinking that well-recalled false information is true. The experiments do not show that denials are completely useless; if that were true, everyone would…
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Reading the news with sensitivity
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The new journalism?
A lot of messianic stuff is written about what the future of journalism looks like, but new site Wikileaks has a pre-launch taster of the kind of materials and treatment that could underpin it. It has a leak of what it claims is a list of US Military Equipment in Afghanistan. Wikileaks applies a lot…
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Alan Yentob: unforgivable
Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director and self-basting arts turkey, uses an Observer diary piece to bury his contribution to the cut-away crisis. Yentob is in the dock for being filmed nodding approvingly to contributions from people he hadn’t actually interviewed. The impression being given to viewers that he had actually interviewed them. …on occasion, I…