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What are we telling the nation?
Should the BBC aspire to making the good popular and the popular good or should it simply respond to the demands of the market place? Or is there perhaps a third way?
David Edgar,
London Review of Books, 6 July 2005
Going to the blogs?
The idea that blogging might be the salvation of politics seems not just to overstate the impact of the Internet, but to understate the problem of public disenchantment with politics
Kenan Malik,
BBC, 30 March 2005
Journalism: power without responsibility
'Bringing us knowledge of the world' - the rational basis of modern journalism - has become merely a means to satisfy our curiosity by revealing that which others want to hide
Kenneth Minogue,
New Criterion, 5 February 2005
Celebrity Media Spinning Out of Control?
What historically has been a cozy and symbiotic relationship is now in many cases turning sour, and celebrities are seething.
Jake Tapper and Dan Morris,
ABC News, 5 February 2005
Putting the photos in perspective
Susan Sontag’s 28-year-old book
On Photography gives a better take on the Iraq torture snaps than most of today’s commentaries.
Josie Appleton, Putting the photos in perspective, 20 January 2005
Are Videogames Art?
The debate of whether or not games are an art form is a lively one, but it's not unique. The same debate has raged from the early to late 20th century with the Ready-made art objects of Marcel Duchamp to the controversial photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Chi Kong Lui, Gamecritics.com, 27 May 2003
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Classical Philosophy? Create a game in which philosophers debate and learners have to pick out what each would say
Marc Prensky,
On The Horizon, 30 September 2001
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