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How to be lawfully killed
Boarding a tube train whilst Brazilian hasn’t yet been established as sufficient reason to be lawfully killed, but Sir Michael Wright, the coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, has at least ruled that shooting dead a passenger going about their every day business on public transport is…
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‘Creative’ Economics vs. Journalism and the Public Trust
I fully expect that most television journalists will not have dived into a copy of Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting by Richard E. Caves. Freakonomics it is not. But Caves is the guy (ok, Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard) who suggested something that may be appealing to journalists…