According to evidence before a House of Lords committee, reported by the BBC, Rupert Murdoch has admitted telling his red-tops what to write (and making his views clear to the board of the Times, as well). So if you want distortions and half-truths designed to warp your views to fit the personal political agenda of a nationality-hopping billionaire, you should buy the Sun, the paper that sticks up for Australian American British values.
Category: Democracy
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Murdoch to public: Obey
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Adam Curtis on the Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist
From Screenwipe, on Youtube here. Adam Curtis is the man behind the ravishing but occasionally dodgy doc, the Power of Nightmares.
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Rotten timber
Democracy knows you as the poisoner of the streams of human intercourse, the fomenter of war, the preacher of hate, the unscrupulous enemy of a peaceful human society
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Gore blimey
Congratulations to Al Gore (and the IPCC) for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I see that the BBC ‘most recommended comments’ page on the topic is, as always, full of right wing nuts.
I wonder whether the right-wing noise machine that is the BBC Have Your Say feature is a bad sign for (a) the BBC’s ability to get user interaction right, (b) the future of politics or (c) the future of the human race. Or (d) all of the above, I suppose.
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Politics Online Conference 2007
The Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet ran a conference called Politics Online at the start of the month: its highlights are archived here.
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Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
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Civic republicanism and active citizenship
A great article by Bernard Crick in On Line Opinion (an Australian journal).
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How far people engage online
Some interesting stats here on what levels of participation/content creation different net users reach. (via Paul Evans).
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The Long Tail of Participation
Interesting blog post on the Guardian’s technology blog about how democracy can be supported online. Astonishing fact: UN resolutions can’t be searched by Google because they use session-specific URIs.