adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Collective complicity

    Thanks to WW2, one of the moral talking points of the past century was the collective complicity of citizens and cultures. In this century, the arguments over collective complicity will come less from our civic activities, than from our consumption and investment decisions. What does all this have to do with the news business? Nothing…

  • Television awards

    My holiday treat was Larry Sanders on the iPod. Among the many, many gems: Larry: Do you know what the American Television Award looks like? Artie: Well, it’s probably a statue of a guy with his head halfway up another guy’s ass.

  • Information and understanding

    This is my favourite quote from one of the books I’ve been reading over the vacation, Hans Christian von Baeyer‘s Information: The New Language of Science: Why does nature seem granular, discontinuous, quantized into discrete chunks like sand – instead of smooth and continuous like water? The answer is that while we have no idea…

  • Vacation

    This blog is taking a vacation (to the home of the brave…etc.). We all need one, as Robert Reich points out. In the meantime feel free to explore some of the other stuff here – there are my favourite posts over on the right, and if you plug a word in to the search box…