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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLabour must not abandon media reformIn an open letter to Labour leadership candidates, prominent figures in the party call for continued support for...
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Published in: 50.50Where are women's voices in 'The Family' Netflix series?It illuminates a secretive network of influential US Christian conservatives. But it’s also remarkable for excluding...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRemainers need new messengers for a new mediaThe cards are still stacked against the next Remain campaign. It's time to learn lessons and regroup.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe government must restore funding for free TV licences for the over-75s, urge campaigners and expertsThe government has off-loaded responsibility for funding – or withdrawing – free TV licenses, onto the BBC. Media...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC should stand up to the government’s hypocrisy over free licence fees for over-75sPerhaps there is a very British compromise to be found?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy a focus on "fake news" and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutionsMP's new 'fake news' report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCommons report on “fake news” says failing electoral laws are putting UK democracy at riskReport from MPs builds on openDemocracy’s work exposing unaccountable ‘dark money’ and influence on our elections
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Tickers of terror" – the crisis of Polish media as told by news crawlsAs Poland prepares for another divisive and violent independence day holiday on 11 November (celebrating "100 years...
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Published in: HomeMore and more Swedes reading misleading anti-immigrant news sitesNativist, Islamophobic websites are flourishing in Sweden as politics takes a hard right.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA Syrian game of thrones: infotainment and New York Times’ spectacular coverageThe ‘catchiest’ New York Times’ articles about Syria since 2011, reveal an obsession with the spectacle, a failure...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia"Big Brother": the art of subversionArt achieves its highest purpose when it questions the structures of power in a society. A goal that "Big Brother",...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTurkish mainstream media’s bad habit keeps getting worseThe Turkish public has been puzzled by fabricated news stories appearing every day in the mass media.
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Published in: HomeFake news didn’t start with Donald TrumpRemarkably, there is no positive correlation between democracy and public confidence in the media, which is often...
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Published in: HomeBought and paid for – how Romania’s media is pressured by corporate and political mastersJournalists in Romania failing to conform to pressure from private companies and advertisers face intimidation and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May regards television debates an intrusion into Britain’s real democratic processThe Prime Minister has refused to take part in a TV debate. What else will she throw out? Could Prime Minister's...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe’re having an election. George Osborne must put his Evening Standard job on hold until it’s overCan the former UK Chancellor, who masterminded the Tory victory in 2015, really deliver ‘straight facts and opinion’...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTurkey’s coup failed everywhere, except in Egyptian mediaEgypt's media welcomed, unabashedly, the Turkish military coup; prematurely hailing Erdogan’s overthrow.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaShame on those who try to justify Giulio Regeni’s assassinationClaims that Regeni’s supervisors bear responsibility for sending him into danger are outrageous, betraying both...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDoes the media say too much when reporting on terrorism?News coverage of investigations into terrorist attacks raise concerns about whether the media goes too far in...
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC's Northern Irish TroublesFrom its inception as an unabashedly ‘unionist’ organization, the BBC in Belfast has had a problematic history. Has...
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