Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-editor (with Michael Bailey) of openDemocracy's Capitalism and the University strand that ran in 2011/12 as well as the collection of essays, The Assault on Universities (2011). He is the author of The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and The Politics of Media Policy (2008) and secretary of Goldsmiths UCU branch.
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKCorbyn can afford to sidestep the media but not their powerCorbyn needs a strategy to take on the media.
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Publicado en: HomeA guided tour through our series on 'liberalism in neoliberal times'We started the series with the proposition that liberalism is far too important to be left to the ‘liberals'. 38...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKWas it ‘the Sun wot won it’? Lessons from the 1992 and 2015 electionsLabour abandoned its pledge to tackle media concentration after its 1992 defeat. It should resist the urge to do so now.
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKCan we afford to ignore what Katie Hopkins says about migrants drowning in the Med?The Sun columnist's violent words about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean are indefensible. They should be...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKBreak big media monopolies and help new journalism projects—pollAmid saturation media coverage of the coming UK general election, corporate control of big news organisations goes...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKThe wider significance of Oborne’s resignation
Oborne's resigation raises multiple issues concerning journalistic integrity at a time when public trust in...