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Can you make kids media literate?
What exactly is media literacy? The British government takes it terribly seriously. At least it charges the UK broadcast regulator, Ofcom, with promoting it. And they chose to promote it with the BBC by putting on a news day – called School Report – for kids aged 12 to 13. You could retitle the exercise…
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What we get from the news…
In the turgid world of academic writing on communications you have to look hard to find the gems. Here is one of them. A survey of people’s viewing habits in old communist East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The gem (IMHO) is the last line, by the way: Apart from time and income, communication…
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TV News: faking it in the good old days
I stumbled upon this TV news “fakery” classic from the early 1960s, which comes care of CBS veteran Daniel Schorr’s memoir, Clearing The Air. Schorr is lunching his boss, CBS chief, Bill Paley.
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How to argue in circles
Writing in the FT, Pablo Eisenberg provides a great example of fuzzy thinking on journalism. And also a lesson in how to write in circles. For a decade, the print media have been the only effective mechanism for keeping non-profit organisations open and accountable. The outstanding investigative work of the Boston Globe, the Washington Post,…