Sexism in Politics – and beyond
The sexism faced by GE 17 election candidate, Emily Owen is sadly too commonplace in the media and society in general.
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Politics
Corbyn and the media in #GE2017
Jeremy Corbyn has never had an easy ride from the so called ‘mainstream media’. Is he a victim of circumstance or architect of his own misfortune?
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General Election 2017: The TV Debates
With a General Election TV debate confirmed for May 18th. John Jewell takes a look at the history of the format.
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Who will set the General Election campaign agenda?
In the first of a new series Dr Stephen Cushion examines which parties will dominate General Election coverage and who sets the news the agenda.
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The squeeze on good journalism
Responsible journalism is under pressure. The old business models are failing and as yet there is no clear new business model for serious news. Trusted information is the currency of healthy democracies – but today that currency is debased, and we are all paying the price.
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Down the Rabbithole Part Two: Alice meets a White Knight, a Fancy Bear and the (Anti-)Red Queen
There is no doubt that what Greenwald describes as the easy prevalence of anti-Russian stereotyping and paranoia is a groove into which we in the West can easily slip.
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Why the fake news panic matters
Information is the currency of our world. Business, politics, social discourse, international relations and more rest on the assumption of shared, accurate information. But we learned in 2016 how that currency is being debased in an alarming number of ways.
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Down the rabbithole… some passing thoughts on Russia, the Deep State and Julian Assange’s tweets
Earlier this week the US astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson posted the following tweet: 2 + 2 = 4 #1984
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The Decay of Truth?
It was Oscar Wilde who once wrote that ‘life imitates art far more than art imitates life’. He claimed that ‘Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.’
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How should Britain’s broadcasters tackle Fake News?
2016 was the year that news seemed to collapse into Hunter S Thompson’s dystopian vision of television as a “cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs”.
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