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Johnston Press
You can see the Johnston Press‘s version of the future of local media in Peterborough or Halifax. And hey, there are tag clouds! And people do seem to be reading a lot of sport, despite sport being tabbed off the main page, as are readers’ contributions. Personally, I think a quick visit to Spokane‘s local…
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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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Panorama
When the BBC delivered its verdict on the Hutton Inquiry it was left to John Ware and Panorama. The transcript for Ware’s programme runs to over 12,000 words. It’s a long and serious piece of work, and the original cut runs longer still. Ware has left the programme. Now it will be half an hour.…
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Richard Jefferies
Rediscovered the Richard Jefferies anthology Landscape with Figures, selected by Richard Mabey. Jefferies was a Victorian essayist and journalist. The collection features One of the New Voters. It was written in 1884, when the English franchise had been further extended to agricultural workers, like the harvest reaper that the essay sketches. If you like great…