Networks

‪#‎FridayThread‬ – Corbyn’s networks as a modern digital ecclesia?

Mick Fealty on July 15, 2016, 1:47 pm | Readers 1217

Newsnight had a fascinating conversation (with not a little tension) between Charles Moore (the conscience of the British right, let’s call him) and Matthew Parris (ferociously bright and pragmatic) over the elevation of a Remainer to the head of a Brexit government. Moore bemoaned the fact that in an age which the voters warm each time to a message of change, the new Prime Minister does not fit the bill of those looking for that change to become tangible. The only …

Is the BBC biased? (Is the Pope a Catholic?) If so, how can it speak for the nation?

Mick Fealty on June 9, 2016, 5:15 pm | Readers 1254

Is the BBC biased? Is the Pope a Catholic? Do Bears defecate in the woods? Yes, yes, and yes. Next? Well, I only ask because media bias is a hot topic ever since the Internet enabled us to upload our views and share them with others, giving us a work-around of the voices of authority on the box. The spark was this controversy when Corbynites jumped up and down last week demanding the head of Laura Kuenssberg, the first female BBC News …