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Journalistic censure
I wouldn’t exactly call Kevin Myers one of my favourite writers, but it takes a belly full of bile to compose an epistle of anger this good. I must admit to harbouring similar feelings for some of the people I’ve encountered along the way.
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Unrequired Reading {8.2.09}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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The future of journalism after The Wire
The intellectual justification for journalism has never been kicked around with much conviction. James W. Carey gave it a shot in the mid-1990s, more in sorrow than in anger. He was struggling to make sense of the twisted legacy of journalism within the American university system, but in passing he let slip the real purpose…
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Unrequired Reading {6.2.09 to 8.2.09}
These are my links for 6.2.09 through 8.2.09: The Independent goes free…in Muswell Hill at least | currybetdotnet – 8 February, 2009 – It looks like the credit crunch is beginning to bite around Muswell Hill, and this week we lost our branch of the Fine Burger Company. That didn't deter The Independent's distribution team,…