What happened is that the old media are still pursuing the same model of selling stories. What they should be doing instead is providing information – the stuff that is in the public interest that would otherwise not get told.
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Climate Crisis
Thomas Piketty: The age of green money
Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? The answer is yes, but under certain conditions. Read here
Economics
Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEBT FETISHISM
Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here
Climate Crisis
The Barents Observer: Norway offers oil firms 70 new Barents Sea exploration blocks
“Are there any adults home?” Greenpeace asks rhetorically after the Norwegian Government on Wednesday announced this year’s licensing round. Read here The Goliat oil rig for the Barents Sea. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
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