An interesting discussion on Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business can be found at MediaLens.
“In 1996, Noam Chomsky attempted to explain to an equally bemused Andrew Marr (then of the Independent):
Marr: “This is what I don’t get, because it suggests – I mean, I’m a journalist – people like me are ’self-censoring’…”
Chomsky: “No – not [...]
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Self-censorship in media
October 9, 2008 – 2:02 pm
Henson: out of touch artist or evildoer?
October 6, 2008 – 2:02 pm
I admit I come to the Henson table with a certain level of bias regarding the artistic world. I spent large chunks of my childhood surrounded by mad artists — some of them rather talented painters, photographers, sculptors, knifemakers, blacksmiths, jewelers and assorted crafts people — from whom I primarily learnt the art of tolerance: [...]
Conflict of Interest discusses Afghanistan
October 3, 2008 – 11:50 am
Channel 31’s Conflict of Interests hosts Greg Barns and Peter Faris speak with Richard Tanter, adjunct Professor from NMIT on the war in Afghanistan and why Australia is still there…
You can see Part 2 here.
Keep our bike lanes sacred
October 1, 2008 – 4:21 pm
Two weeks ago a woman by the name of Carolyn Rawlins was killed on Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD when her front tyre was caught in the tram tracks and a coach failed to see her. Her death has ignited debate about traffic flow through the city and it seems like now every one -car, [...]
The Hollow Men
October 1, 2008 – 2:05 pm
So, I might be a little bit slow on this one, or perhaps I’m extremely slow, but when I came across this fine story in today’s Wall Street Journal, I learned that The Hollow Men is not only an amusing 30 minutes of political japery on the ABC each Wednesday night. It is also a [...]
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