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Bagdikian on the Media’s Corporate Values and Overreliance on Official Sources

March 13, 2014, 1:08 pm

I’ve owned Ben Bagdikian‘s The Media Monopoly for some twenty years, and have only just managed to get around to reading it. The edition I own dates back to 1987; its analysis of the growing...

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Kinds of Nostalgia

June 20, 2013, 6:01 am

In reviewing Hadara Lazar’s Out of Palestine: The Making of Modern Israel, (‘Palestine: How Bad, & Good was British Rule, New York Review of Books, 7 February 2013) Avishai Margalit writes The term...

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Responding to Caitlin Kelly on Journalistic Standards, Writerly Solidarity,...

September 27, 2012, 7:56 am

Caitlin Kelly from the New York Times writes in my comments space in response to my blog post from a few days ago and I respond. I want to expand on that response because I think her comment and mine...

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Stenographers, Megaphones, or Journalists?

September 20, 2012, 9:31 am

Yesterday I posted the following on my Facebook status: The New York Times gives us ‘news’ on the CTU strike and includes this: ‘Mayor Rahm Emanuel has focused on trying to improve the quality of...

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David Coady on the Need for an ‘Applied Epistemology’

July 11, 2012, 8:16 am

David Coady‘s new book What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology To Contemporary Issues (Blackwell, 2012)–by making vividly clear the importance and the significance of epistemology to politics and...

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