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Summing up what we’ve learnt on Leveson, Murdoch and law
The fuss has died down as the inquiry has piled up a mountain of facts and opinions. Politicians have realised that the interest in the scandal outside the worlds of media and politics has faded.
George Brock,
georgebrock.net, May 2012
The war between fact and fallacy in US politics
Inadvertently, a high-ranking conservative Republican has captured the political zeitgeist. During budget debates earlier this month about reproductive healthcare provider Planned Parenthood, Arizona senator Jon Kyle was caught falsely insisting on the Senate floor that providing abortions is ‘well over 90 per cent of what Planned Parenthood does’
Wendy Kaminer,
spiked, 27 April 2012
Citizens, the Floor is Yours!
Citizen journalistic experiences differ from one context to the next in terms of roles and objectives, the produced contents, their formats and their quality.
Nadia Faris,
Nordic Page, 11 March 2012
Why we’re launching the Counter-Leveson Inquiry
Today, spiked launches the Counter-Leveson Inquiry, an intellectual two-fingered salute to the creeping conformism and censoriousness being unleashed by the Leveson process.
Brendan O'Neill,
spiked, 29 February 2012
How Luther went viral
Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation
Economist, 17 December 2011
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