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Alan Johnston: the final button
[From Bloggerheads via Lloyd Shepherd]
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Alan Johnston
Good news about Alan Johnston. Relief for him, his friends and his family.
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Anything new under the sun?
We’re often berating ourselves in the media for overlooking important social and historical developments. Take the rise of Wahabism in Islam, for example. It appeared by stealth, you might imagine. And now read American journalist Charles Dudley Warner from 1881, on the impact of the wires on newspapers. …consider how much space is taken up…
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Facts and opinion
The famous line of C.P.Scott, editor and the proprietor of the Guardian – “comment is free, but facts are sacred” – is immortalised not just in the Guardian‘s op-ed, but also in SacredFacts, Richard Sambrook‘s blog. Scott was in his seventies when he wrote the essay from which the line is taken, back in 1921.…