Link to an article by Ruth Fowler:
“Intersecting with the Identity Police (Or Why I Stopped Writing Op-Eds)”
Tag: Journalism
Colin Todhunter – Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
Link to an article by Colin Todhunter:
“Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India”
Kristine Mattis – The Cult of the Professional Class
Link to an article by Kristine Mattis:
Tamara Pearson – Clickbait v Political Impact
Calum Marsh – A. O. Scott, Last of the Power Critics
Link to a review by Calum Marsh of the book Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (2016) by A.O. Scott:
“A. O. Scott, Last of the Power Critics”
Bonus links: High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood (this book details the rise of direct marketing of films since 1975, rendering film critics obsolete for marketing purposes; this is the theory that Marsh implicitly relies upon to say that a critic can’t make or break a work), and Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (much of what Marsh says about the prestige of the “paper of record” follows Bourdieu’s theory)
John Pilger – Freeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter
Link to an article by John Pilger:
Aviva Chomsky – All the News That’s Fit to Print
Link to an article by Aviva Chomsky:
“All the News That’s Fit to Print: How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers”
Bonus links: “What Pierre Bourdieu Taught Me” and “Should Journalists Care If Sources Go Off to Prison?”
Belén Fernández – Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks
Link to an article by Belén Fernández:
“Beirut and Paris: A Tale of Two Terror Attacks”
Bonus link: “Paris Attack: Isis Has Created a New Kind of Warfare”
John Pilger – The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Link to a transcript of an address by John Pilger given for the launching of the book The Wikileaks Files:
Paul Street – The Nature and Mission of U.S. Corporate Mass Media
Link to an article by Paul Street:
“The Nature and Mission of U.S. Corporate Mass Media”
As usual, Street succumbs to a bit of “beautiful soul syndrome” but otherwise offers some valuable insights.