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Losing in Afghanistan
Do yourself a favour and read Adam Holloway‘s account of a recent trip to Afghanistan. He’s been a soldier and a journalist, and now he’s a Conservative MP who sits on the Defence Select committee. (For the record, I’m not a Conservative, and Adam’s a former colleague and friend.)
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The military and the media
If one is to serve the state as a thinking military officer, one must serve the state as it is, not the fantasy state of America’s highest ideals and ambitions.What with marines selling their stories, the problem the media has criticizing serving soldiers, or exercising the type of disinterested realism (call it impartiality or objectivity)…
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Are 18-24 year olds just not news consumers?
Online readership figures have just come out from Nielsen/Net Ratings for February (see Jack Loechner‘s post for more). I may be missing something but they seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren’t natural news…
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An Unreliable History of the News in 500 words
Ever wondered where the modern news media started? Germany, 1450s – Johann Gutenberg invents movable type printing and brings out the Bible. Problem with the Bible? You only buy it once. New translations keep presses rolling. They also raise political problems (like Tyndale‘s translation in England). Readers can use their Bible to make up their…