Category: Media
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Radar, giving people in the margins a digital voice
Libby Powell became a freelance journalist after winning the amateur category of the GuardianInternational Development Journalism competition in 2010. After a year though she began to feel like a fraud writing about things of which she had no experience. This led to the eventual creation of Radar. A team of journalists would train the next generation […]
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Noam Chomsky in conversation with journalists 1988
A very interesting transcript of a debate / discussion with journalists and Noam Chomsky about the elite media. 1988.
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Who rules Bristol?
10 million people paid to vote for the 2010 X Factor final, 14.5 million people watched Britain’s Got Talent final in 2012 and the 2010 elections drew only three times as many as the latter at 45.5 million people. A lot of people enjoy interacting when it comes to entertainment and there’s nothing wrong with […]
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The Stylist magazine, weighty issues but no dieting?
There is an interview with Stylist magazine’s editor Lisa Smoraski in the Guardian and the free, printed publication is described as having hard-hitting features such as the gender pay gap and women in politics. There are no diets and it wants to talk intelligently to women. To me, having a magazine suggest that they want […]
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Transported: By The Army of Commuters
The next army to lead the way may be made up of the commuters, who are more than just pretty travelling faces.
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Data: in the eye of the beholder
A few weeks ago I was having breakfast at Primrose Cafe in Clifton. The sun was shining, the radio was on too loud, the place was crowded as usual and the conversation was almost flowing. In the midst of all this my companion made the point that there seemed to be more beautiful people in […]
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Dr Laura, Made For TV? Not Quite
Dr. Laura Schlessinger has recently resigned from her US national radio program following a rant about race and in particular after her repeated use of the ‘n’ word, as such. This latest controversy which has been widely covered by the US media and by members of the UK media, such as Roy Greenslade, is not […]
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