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Barbarians at the Gate – Britain’s Broken Public Sphere
Alan Rusbridger’s What is the future of the fourth estate prompts a thought on the state of British media, or – more simply – the BBC/Murdoch duopoly. The BBC commands radio, online, magazines (Top Gear, Gardener’s World) and mainstream TV viewing. Sky and Newscorp command subscription TV and print. They are – natch – deadly…
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Replies to a journalism student
Belinda Giles sent me the following email: Dear Adrian I am a university student in Western Australia, studying law/journalism. I am working on an opinion piece for the journalism component – the subject is ‘journalism is the lifeblood of democracy’. During my googling I came across your blog – ‘a blog about news’. I have…
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Janet Malcolm on journalism
Janet Malcolm has some choice words about journalism in her extended essay in the 3 May 2010 New Yorker. Over the years, the social status and the education level of journalists has risen and some journalists write extremely well. But the profession retains its transgressiveness. Human frailty continues to be the currency in which it…
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What we learned from social media
What We Learned From Social Media View more presentations from Adrian Monck. From the Lac Leman Communications Conference.