Modern people face new issues about who and what to trust. Worse, they wonder whether the idea of “the truth” is still valid. We look at these problems – often with the cheerful thought that there’s plenty of trust-worthiness and truthfulness in the world. And that we can spot them.
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Why we posted this: It’s become a commonplace that the world fell prey to a capitalist and free market ideology and that the Credit Crunch has killed all that. But does this revisionism hold water? More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on November 24th, 2009
Why we posted this: The 100-year old business model for journalism is bust. But there are lots of ways of fixing it. Let’s keep the state out of it. More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Media / Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on October 25th, 2009
Why we posted this: This is a bad time for economics and economists. The public and media are somewhere between amused and angry at the profession’s apparent failure. Actually, economists may well have been arrogant about their trade, but the rest of us always knew its weaknesses and perhaps underrated its strengths. More »
Themes: Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on August 11th, 2009
Why we posted this: People have forgotten how badly they need to be governed by an elite. The exposure of MP’s allowances in the Daily Telegraph shows just how far we have gone in misunderstanding the problem of public service. The paper of the professions has descended into tabloid destructiveness. More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Politics / Society / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on May 9th, 2009
Why we posted this: Politics and politicians in the UK are mostly decent and public-spirited. So it profoundly matters that journalists should tell us more of what they know about the skullduggery at the heart of Westminster. More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Media / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on April 18th, 2009
Why we posted this: The media has mostly accepted as reasonable the idea common amongst blacks that until Obama it wasn’t worth voting. This is worth challenging. More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Politics / Rights / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on November 5th, 2008
Why we posted this: The web – especially in Web 2.0 mode – spreads dangerous nonsense. Sure, but we should hold our nerve and redress the balance. More »
Themes: Interrogating the Media / Media / Money / Society / The Good Corporation / Truth & Trust. Posted by Paul Seaman on September 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: Greenpeace have again exploited a legal loophole which makes it impossible to curtail their “right” to damage property. More »
Themes: Campaigning / Green / Media / Rights / Society / Truth & Trust. Posted by Paul Seaman on September 11th, 2008
Why we posted this: The left has fallen on the idea that Sarah Palin is a self-confessed “creationist”. But is she one? Would it it matter if she were? Why do the media repeat the “charge” endlessly? More »
Themes: Media / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on September 6th, 2008
Why we posted this: Public relations people are supposed to be like lawyers, aren’t they? They don’t have to agree with their clients’ messages or be too fussy who they work for. The system may have suffered some collateral damage in Russia’s “August War” in Georgia. More »
Themes: Campaigning / Media / Politics / Rights / The Good Corporation / Truth & Trust. Posted by Paul Seaman on September 6th, 2008