Tag: Media

The Only Way to Have a Free Press is to Pay For It

Jan 25, 2017

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by

KB

in Books, Politics, Technology

One of the things that’s been on my mind in the wake of recent political events is the vital importance to liberal democracy of a genuinely independent and critical free press. It strikes me that if we want a free press, we’re really do need to be willing to pay for it. In Raoul Martinez’s Creating…
Super-Injunctions: Is The Whole Truth Always Desirable?

May 24, 2011

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by

KB

in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Current Affairs

The debacle over super-injunctions and ‘An Un-named Premiership Footballer‘ Ryan Giggs’ misdemeanours has raised interesting questions about truth and privacy in the age of social networks. The super-injunction dissolved because Giggs’ name got so widely spread via Twitter, and by a newspaper outside of English jurisdiction. But are we the better for it? We might…