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Middle East graphics ideas
Yes, it really is from the New York Post. Could you make it up? No, you couldn’t. Would you want to? And Before Tony Blair calls up, it is running in the comment section…[HT: Gawker]
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An audience with Tony Blair
As the photo above aptly demonstrates, I’m completely at home with using my BlackBerry’s camera to newsgather. Or not. The middle blur is Tony Blair, fresh from the latest of his suite of valedictory speeches – this one about the media. The Prime Minister attacked “the confusion of news and commentary” in journalism. “Opinion and…
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Madeleine McCann: rite and wrong
As the Madeleine McCann story endured, I spoke to reporters who said: “If she was black, or poor, or…” and gave that slightly embarrassed look that journalists give one another on stories like this, hoping for an acknowledgement. There’s not much to inform, educate or entertain about child abduction. And this isn’t just a case…
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Madeleine McCann: defending ritual
James Carey, ancient journalism professor, believed in news as ritual (something he may have got from Hegel). A ritual view of communication is directed not toward the extension of messages in space but toward the maintenance of society in time; not the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs. So is ritual…