I wish I’d been in that meeting. The one where Trinity Mirror staff brainstormed the idea for a new kind of daily newspaper. That must…
I wish I’d been in that meeting, the one where YouTube TV moguls the Fine Brothers abandoned their controversial plans to trademark the word “React”, abandoned their global licensing scheme for “React to…” video formats and ditched their copyright infringement claims against other “reaction videos”.
Make no mistake, this is a big deal for the future of entertainment and the evolution of digital media, and is so deeply ironic that it almost tore a whole in the space time continuum.
I wish I’d been in that meeting… Imagine what sort of grim circumstances would drive a top TV executive, placed in charge of a hugely…
I wish I’d been in that meeting… What sort of thinking would shape the commissioning of a six-part documentary series for the 10pm Tuesday evening…
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Eliane Glaser is a Guardian writer, a lecturer and broadcaster. Her interest in ideology and propaganda has led her to critique the current faltering economic…
We need a more sophisticated debate about business and how it impacts on wider society, writes Mark Braund.
The following books have inspired our thinking for the Four Horsemen film and our Survival Manual book.
The chances of reducing the number of lives ruined by war and other forms of social violence depend on our ability to identify the root…
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”…
The cognitive map that has been put in place by our schools, universities and our media does not encourage us to question accepted norms… instead there is apathy.
Apart from supine politicians, the greatest friends of the elite are those who control much of the mass media. The elite have proved exceptionally adept…
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
Chris Hedges
Four Horsemen
Professor Noam Chomsky shares an anecdote depicting the state of modern media.