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Faction and fakes, trust and distrust
The director Peter Kosminsky was once a documentary maker. In 1988 he made a film called Afghantsi, about the Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The film won all sorts of awards, but what I loved about it were the sequences cut to a haunting piece of brilliantly chosen Afghan music. I resolved to track it…
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Young people and the news
Young people and the news. Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre has a metrics-based jeremiad out, with just that title. (In case you feel like it’s déjà vu all over again, I’ve posted on this before.) Hand-wringing over young people and the news is simply a displaced generational concern for their lack of the right stuff. We don’t…