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What the duck…
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AP on Times Online
The AP‘s Matt Moore has a piece out on European newspapers – European Papers Upbeat on Survival. It has an interesting nugget on the Times: Zach Leonard, the digital media publisher for the Times, said pressures of the online world were forcing old journalists to learn new tricks. For example, search engines’ tendency to reduce…
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Losing in Afghanistan
Do yourself a favour and read Adam Holloway‘s account of a recent trip to Afghanistan. He’s been a soldier and a journalist, and now he’s a Conservative MP who sits on the Defence Select committee. (For the record, I’m not a Conservative, and Adam’s a former colleague and friend.)
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The military and the media
If one is to serve the state as a thinking military officer, one must serve the state as it is, not the fantasy state of America’s highest ideals and ambitions.What with marines selling their stories, the problem the media has criticizing serving soldiers, or exercising the type of disinterested realism (call it impartiality or objectivity)…