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The gap left by the Fairfax strike
In 1945, sociologist Bernard Berelson took advantage of a newspaper delivery strike in New York to do some research, later published as What ‘Missing The Newspaper’ Means. With 500 Aussie journos on strike (see their website), I thought it might be instructive to revisit a few of Berelson’s observations, to see how they held up…
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Nationalistic Lampoon
Proving perhaps, that you have to be American to send up the DNC, Brit comic John Oliver gets a mixed reception on the Daily Show – right at the end.
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‘Propaganda’ on the Beeb
Over at the BBC, Nicola Meyrick steps up to defend Analysis from 7 August 2008, Al-Qaeda’s Enemy Within, against the claim from a document leaked to the Guardian that suggested the programme was inspired by a government information unit.
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Collective complicity
Thanks to WW2, one of the moral talking points of the past century was the collective complicity of citizens and cultures. In this century, the arguments over collective complicity will come less from our civic activities, than from our consumption and investment decisions. What does all this have to do with the news business? Nothing…