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Informed democracies, national conversations and YOU
Informed democracy meet your new friend the national conversation. NBC News anchor Brian Williams has this to say in Time, à propos ‘YOU’ – the person of the year: The problem is that there’s a lot of information out there that citizens in an informed democracy need to know in our complicated world… Does it…
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Radical transparency
Jeff Jarvis gives his take on Chris Anderson‘s idea of radical transparency for journalism. I’m not so convinced. I’ve seen radical transparency before. Remember restaurants in the 1990s? Everywhere you went you could see into the kitchen. Instead of your meal emerging from a pair of swing doors, you could see dinner taking shape amid…
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Weekend reading…
Second weekend excuse…this highly entertaining blog post from Eurotrash. It comprehensively works over a young music reviewer from a local London paper, and also journalists generally: Step forward Dean…From your picture, you appear sneering, which is an excellent attribute for any journalist. This week Dean is ‘presenting’ to us, Ginger Bread Men, who come complete…
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Vocation
It’s the weekend, so forgive a digression. Although poems about journalism are few, there are some out there who might catch their reflection in this sonnet from Auden‘s series The Quest: XII Incredulous, he stared at the amusedOfficial writing down his name amongThose whose request to suffer was refused. The pen ceased scratching: though he…