There’s been a lot of focus over the last few months on freedom of speech and censorship online. What began with Alex Jones and David Ike a number of years ago has morphed into bans for Steven Crowder, Project Veritas, Articles of Unity (a campaign to reject the two party system), Unity4J (an…
Category: Media
Don’t Trust the Papers
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels Mistrust in the mainstream media has been fuelled by allegations of bias and the spread of ‘fake news’. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 found that just over 40 per cent of people in the UK agreed with the statement,…
Chatter #111 – Nicole Vanderbilt on Bookshop.org and Challenging the Amazon Monopoly
Nicole Vanderbilt, Managing Director for the UK wing of Bookshop.org, was my guest on today’s show. If you, like me, have long been lamenting the harsh reality that Amazon was the best place to buy books online, then you can thank your lucky stars that Bookshop.org has now come to the UK! They…
Chatter #108 – Hardeep Matharu on Byline Times and Investigative Journalism
Hardeep Matharu, Editor at Byline Times was my guest on today’s show. Byline Times are a fairly new investigative reporting based news outlet that has sprung up to fill the gap of investigative journalism in the modern British press. We got into the concept of investigative journalism, the future of print newspapers, and…
Chatter #103 – Jennifer Rauch on Slow Media, Digital Minimalism, and the 24 Hour News Cycle
Jennifer Rauch the author of Slow Media: Why Slow is Satisfying, Sustainable and Smart was my guest on today’s show. I came across her work when researching the idea of slow media. I have been reading a lot this year on the problems with the speed of modern technology and the modern news…
Are Podcasts Making You Smarter or Just Distracting You?
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