Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike & the Aftermath
New edition 2019, edited by Granville Williams, published by CPBF North (formerly associated with @cpbfreedom, now @bettermediauk)
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Will the UK be the "Safest" Place in the World to Go Online? (And do we want it to be?) #LSEt3
Tues 19th Nov 2019 6:30- 8:00pm
Hosted by the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology @MediaLSE
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Next week @MediaLSE 👀📝
🔵Tues- Media & Communications in Action Talk3 @PolisLSE
🔘Thurs-Report launch & discussion on whatsApp vigilantes in India
W/E- @sbanetweiser in #Berlin for:
⚫️Fri-Book launch
🔴Sat- talk on 'New Feminisms, New Questions'
https://t.co/k80QgxjEt8
New @oiioxford#OxTEC publication out today, literature review by @alicelthwaite examining how digital technology influences democracy.
https://t.co/vb4oVgxn7S
The state of the UK media! 3 companies control 80% of national newspaper circulation & 5 companies dominate 80% of total online & offline reach. Seeing similar concentration in local news & digital markets. Read our new report https://t.co/hUnItp7GGD @OwenJones84@labourlewis
These aren’t “papers” but unregulated & powerful news providers with a huge online audience - 135 million monthly U.K. visits to Mail & Sun sites alone acc to @mediareformUK report. Need #leveson2 & urgent action to break up media power from @UKLabour
Our former chair @jrschlosberg argues on @itvnews that royals' action against Sun & Mirror is "reflective of a press that is beyond scrutiny". Interestingly, no time for his comments about need for #leveson2 & lack of effective sanctions for ordinary folk https://t.co/PepPpXYBgw
The BBC's coverage of Brexit, its drama commissioning and the Naga Munchetty row exposes an inertial response to our times.
With perceptions of bias on the rise, @NatalieFenton1, chair of @mediareformUK, puts forward the case for reform:
https://t.co/6cDNFMzyZF
Read this, by @seethrujustice. Carefully & patiently it demolishes Andrew Norfolk's latest work in the Times. The sooner people learn to avoid this man the better. He is a disgrace to journalism. @zelo_street@Byline_Media@hackinginquiry@pguk10 https://t.co/j9bBu9lDEE