Sympathy for the devil
In covering the story behind the story of Osama bin Laden, Peter L Bergen has left us grappling with some inconvenient ethical issues. Dan Hogan draws on the works of literary journalists such as Capote and Bowden and philosopher Grayling to answer the ‘unaskable’: can a 9/11, a Hiroshima, be justified?
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Of Marginal Revolution and Angry Bear
In the second instalment of our series on academic blogs, Rohit Chopra identifies posts on economics, globalization, higher education, and journalism.
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In these times, Britons trust Beeb best
Despite the Crowngate and Blue Peter scandals earlier this year, 61 per cent of respondents to a British Journalism Review-YouGov poll said they trusted BBC journalists “a great deal or a fair amount”, ahead of ITV, Channel 4 and up-market reporters, and way ahead of red-top and mid-market newspapers. That’s the good news. The bad news is… well, read on.
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‘As in life, so on keyboard’
Jazz pianist Stephen Merriman discusses his new CD, Modal Soul, and how his work as a psychotherapist informs his approach to composition and playing. “The art a person produces, in any area, always reflects one’s inner state, including not only one’s gifts and talents specific to the art form, but one’s orientation towards life in general,” he tells Rohit Chopra.
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‘Good journalism isn’t dead. It’s terribly ill’
There is a black cloud hanging over the head of the fourth estate and it is smothering journalism — surely, and not slowly. It’s PR that Nick Davies, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Flat Earth News, is talking about.
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