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Off topic: recession humour
From the New Yorker. Cheer yourself up and buy a subscription.
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Journalistic censure
I wouldn’t exactly call Kevin Myers one of my favourite writers, but it takes a belly full of bile to compose an epistle of anger this good. I must admit to harbouring similar feelings for some of the people I’ve encountered along the way.
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The future of journalism after The Wire
The intellectual justification for journalism has never been kicked around with much conviction. James W. Carey gave it a shot in the mid-1990s, more in sorrow than in anger. He was struggling to make sense of the twisted legacy of journalism within the American university system, but in passing he let slip the real purpose…
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What TV stories online tell you about the future
Channel 4 News, the UK TV news industry’s favourite TV news programme, provides an excellent example of the problems of single platform media translating to the web. They have letters which seem to back up claims that the US State Department did warn of serious repercussions to US/UK intelligence sharing. Great catch. How does it…