Category Archives: Media

It Was Like A Movie

Posted on 16 January 2012 by Robert

The print and TV news media is full of the highly visual tragedy of the Costa Concordia, run aground and capsized in the Mediterranean. Describing the chaos of the evacuation, survivors have likened their experience to the film Titanic. You … Continue reading →

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How the Depiction of Technology in #Sherlock Captures the Zeitgeist

Posted on 8 January 2012 by Robert

In a paywalled Times article this time last week, Hugo Rifkind highlighted our loss of the communal Christmas TV moment. EastEnders can never achieve the dizzy ratings heights of the 1980s, Eric and Ernie are dead, and even the numbers … Continue reading →

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BBC Accused of Selective Editing

Posted on 11 August 2011 by Robert

During Tuesday’s edition of Newsnight, hosted by Gavin Esler, one of the studio interviewees accused the BBC of selective editing. The prgramme can be viewed online via the BBC iPlayer (available until 16th August).  In a debate about why young … Continue reading →

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Can Publishing Be a Form of Fact-Checking?

Posted on 9 August 2011 by Robert

For citizen bloggers, publishing a claim online carries the implicit (and often explicit) request – “please help me verify”. Continue reading →

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Debating Breivik’s Manifesto

Posted on 5 August 2011 by Robert

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On Linking To Your Enemies

Posted on 4 August 2011 by Robert

A a failure to link properly looks a bit sly and scheming. Let’s leave the obfuscation and misdirection to the newspapers. Continue reading →

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The Corrupt Corporate Culture At the Heart of #Hackgate (Part I)

Posted on 20 July 2011 by Robert

There are three recent articles that have stuck with me over the course of this scandal, and they’re all about the wider pheonmenon, the corrupt culture that allows all these power abuses to take place.  At Labour Uncut, Anthony Painter … Continue reading →

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Double Standards on Phone Hacking

Posted on 7 July 2011 by Robert

A few quick comments on the unfolding phone hacking scandal, and what it says about the double-standards of our society and politics. First, let us note that the images featured on the front pages of many newspapers yesterday were those … Continue reading →

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The Problem of Verification

Posted on 12 June 2011 by Robert

Angela Philips of Goldsmiths College, at last Friday’s POLIS conference: A Major skill for journalists is to learn how to authenticate sources Or, words to that effect! I made the note on twitter and therefore may have paraphrased. To fully … Continue reading →

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This Week on Twitter

Posted on 9 May 2011 by Robert

Was it last year, or 2009, or maybe 2008, that was branded “The Year of Twitter”? I am tempted to say that it’s an accolade deserved this year too. We’ve had the Arab Spring, the Japanese earthquake, the Royal Wedding … Continue reading →

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