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Does this feel painfully familiar?
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The NUJ: the people united shall never get their act together…
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Journalism and the breakdown of public knowledge
“The breakdown of the means of public knowledge” is a phrase coined by the great American journalist, Walter Lippmann. He used it in Liberty and the News (1920), which is about to be reissued. His argument is simple. Robert Park summarised it thus: that political liberty, under modern conditions, is no longer guaranteed by the…
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What price CNN? Hardball on Israeli cable…
Want to see the business battle over news in the raw? You have to go to Israel, where they hold these negotiations in public. This is from Haaretz: Every few months in the past two years, the HOT cable company has announced it will stop broadcasting popular television channels like BBC Prime, Hallmark and National…