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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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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…