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Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Media

The Media Should Be Prevented by Law From Intruding Into the Private Lives of Public Figures
Whilst some argue that reporting on the private lives of public figures is the entitlement of a free press, others suggest that the media have overstepped the mark and need to be reined in.
Helen Birtwistle, Debating Matters, 1 August 2008

Cracking the whip against free speech
The Mosley case shows we must defend free expression for everyone - even titillating tabloid newspapers.
Tessa Mayes, spiked, 28 July 2008

Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World

Beckett sees the growth of new media and technologies as an opportunity for, rather than a threat to, the traditional practices of journalism. However, he observes, those practices will need to change and adjust to take advantage of the opportunities offered by what he calls networking journalism.

Charlie Beckett, Wiley-Blackwell, 20 May 2008

Byron Review - Children and New Technology
The safety of children should be a central concern for parents and society as a whole.
Tanya Byron, DCFS, 27 March 2008

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.
Melvyn Stokes, Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 15 January 2008

Media Literacy Audit - Report on UK children’s media literacy
Ofcom’s definition of media literacy, developed after formal consultation with stakeholders is ‘the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts’.
Ofcom, Ofcom

The end of the 'noddy' shot is a ray of hope for television
The public has never taken TV seriously because TV execs have never taken the public seriously - but there is hope for the 'idiot box'
Rod Liddle, Spectator, 7 September 2007

In full: Jeremy Paxman's MacTaggart lecture
By trying to give the public what they think it wants, Television disavows its ability to enlighten
Jeremy Paxman, Telegraph, 24 August 2007

Goodbye to newspapers
The replacement of old-fashioned newspaper publishers with moneymen and their armies of market researchers shows that it is on the ownership and management side of journalism that the gravest problems exist
Russell Baker, The New York Review of Books, 15 August 2007

When they stop calling
Scandals over fake phone-ins betray the industry's desperate need to 'connect with the public' through audience participation
Mark Lawson, Guardian, 19 July 2007


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