Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
Blogger flees Pakistan "fearing for his life" Paid Members Public
In some parts of the world, blogging is still very much a revolutionary activity [http://indianexpress.com/article/world/second-missing-pakistani-blogger-found-leaves-country-fearing-for-life-family-4497420/] : > Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed’
Trump's tweets, analysed Paid Members Public
This is a fascinating analysis of the way Donald Trump uses Twitter: The key message? Trump seems to instinctively understand what so many miss: you talk on social media, not write.[via Daring Fireball [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/03/nerdwriter-trump-tweets]]
Fake news is just the tip of the propaganda iceberg Paid Members Public
Fake news is Facebook’s problem, right? Well, maybe it’s a touch bigger than that. Maybe Google has the problem, too [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook] : > Are Jews evil? It’s not a question I’ve ever thought of asking. I hadn’t gone
Live tweeting Trump at the NYT Paid Members Public
Alexandra Ma [https://twitter.com/alexandrama15], one of my current crop of Interactive Journalism students, looks at how the New York Times live covered its meeting with Trump [http://www.interhacktives.com/2016/11/23/new-york-times-coverage-trumps-visit-shows-twitter-can-still-great/] : > But out of all the ways the Times covered the event, Twitter was
The end of presidential access journalism in the US Paid Members Public
The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation
On criticism and appropriate times Paid Members Public
Now is not the time to criticise the Galaxy Note 7 [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/now-is-not-the-time-to-criticize-the-galaxy-note-7] : > Now, I’m not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesn’t have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at
City Students Union votes to ban Mail, Sun and Express Paid Members Public
We are clearly living in interesting times. There are political moves afoot in the student union at City, University of London (where I lecture), to adopt the Stop Funding Hate approach (see post passim [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-attack-free-speech.html] ). That’s led to a student union
