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The interpassive public
Mitch Ratcliffe reffed a great term the other day: interpassivity. (He got it from Slavoj Žižek.) Interpassive is a perfect inversion of the participation and engagement we look for in the media and politics.
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What To Do If You Find Top Secret Intelligence Documents
I wonder why the person who discovered two intelligence assessments on a train gave them to the BBC rather than handing them over to the police?
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Andy Burnham: Talking Trust
I guess I should send whoever is writing Andy Burnham‘s speeches a copy of Can You Trust The Media? Standards are what have kept British broadcasting valued, celebrated and trusted in the UK and around the world. And I think they are becoming more, not less, important to traditional print and broadcast media as we…
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BBC News – “This is London”
The BBC Trust has just issued its report assessing “the impartiality of the BBC’s network news and factual coverage of the four nations of the United Kingdom.” (Yes, Northern Ireland is – and I’m being impartial here – a nation.) Well, like all reports the interesting stuff is not in always in the answer provided,…