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Guardian: in America, not in American
Launches today. It is in America, but not in American. Which to me is a missed opportunity, given my previous solo campaign (actually blog post) to adopt American English as the online standard. Although English (US) has its uglinesses, the Americans care far more about English than we do, as Inigo Thomas admits in his…
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Journalism at the movies
I finally got round to seeing the Bourne Ultimatum at the weekend. (Spoiler ahead) It shoots straight into the top ten for cinematic journalist portrayals, though it doesn’t do us any favours. Paddy Considine plays Simon Ross, fictional security correspondent of the Guardian, a reporter so drippy his photo-byline is a tea stain. Farringdon Road…
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Extra-judicial killing and Islam
Dispatches reporter Phil Rees last night made much of a purportedly rather dangerous sounding man in glasses and a scarf, giving his rather dangerous sounding interpretation of the Qu’ran. Rees’s justification? Journalists need to present the views of radical Muslims in a way that does not push them toward further violence. Journalism has a duty…
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Inside the surge
If you haven’t seen Sean Smith’s film from Baghdad then do yourself a favour and check it out. Smith is a Guardian photographer who’s been shooting video whilst on an embed with a US outfit.I don’t urge you to watch it with a view to persuading you of the sense or otherwise of the US…