Book review by David Beer Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]
It is interesting to note that the media maybe never was omnipotent, but also that coporate media’s power is waning in Ireland as most everywhere else. Read here
John Gomez/Shutterstock.com Steve Schifferes, City, University of London The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the austerity policies of the government than in other parts of Europe. This meant that it became accepted […]
Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]
There is currently so much political upheaval in Britain that one might not be able to see the forest for the trees. The panic of the establishment is palpable. It is not only the right […]
One knows that there is a political re-awakening when institutions are being called into question and challenged. In the last weeks Britain’s left has been increasingly criticising the lack of political neutrality in the BBC, […]
“Platform Capitalism is, of course, underpinned by the value of our data. Targeting people using their data is not the exception, it is the whole point. It is targeting that enables data to be turned […]
Two quotes from long ago sum up the current situation in the Media: A. J. Liebling wrote „Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one”; and Hannen Swaffer claimed “Freedom of […]
Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]
Liberal values? European values? Viktor Orban represents the only values that count in the EU: Neo-liberalism. What the authors meticulously avoid is that Orban’s policies are exactly what the EU wants of him. Orban is […]
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