Occupy: a lot like the Tea Party,but with better press
The media has covered these often-eccentric reactions to America’s economic and political crises very differently. A late October edition of the New Yorker carried a ‘postcard’ piece on Occupy Wall...
View ArticleMike Daisey and thegreat Foxconn con
A new report from inside the giant Chinese factory gives the lie, again, to claims about life on the Apple assembly line. Standing on the steps of the Grand Central Station Apple Store in February this...
View ArticleAirbrushed ads don’t make you sick
It is tragic when young people get so concerned about their appearance that they deprive themselves of food and fall ill. That’s what happened to Rachel Johnson, a former anorexia sufferer who weighed...
View ArticleVem får bli journalist?(Who gets to be a journalist?)
The following article appeared on the website of Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s public broadcasting radio. It considers the barriers to entering journalism in the UK and Sweden today and how journalism is...
View ArticleAnalogue radio silence by 2022: proposal
Sweden should make a full transition to digital radio by 2022, according to a plan presented to the government and to the minister for culture and democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, on Monday. Both...
View ArticleBilden av Israel i svenska medier
Judisk Krönika: Bilden av Israel i svenska medier I 15 år var Lisa Abramowicz generalsekreterare för Svensk Israel Information. Organisationen, som lade ner sin verksamhet vid årsskiftet, hade som...
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