Turning Democracy into Action
Guest post by Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes Our politicians have failed to act, but we now have an opportunity with crowdfunding to collectively acquire The Times and The Sunday Times from Rupert Murdoch. We can each make a small investment and at
American politics, which is much more ready than the UK to call people “liars” is now in the middle of a big discussion about how true Mitt Romney’s convention speech was. The general view seems to be “not that true”,
I’m delighted to be able to announce the publication of our new report Media Regulation & Democracy, a collection of thinkpieces on that topic that we have produced with the kind support of the Carnegie UK Trust, and which can
I encourage anyone interested in the debate on media standards in and around Leveson to read Dan Hind’s The Return of the Public, now released in paperback by Verso. First published in 2010, it antedates the current furore but throws
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing a series of posts from contributors on the topic of media regulation and democracy. On 25 April, the contributors and others gathered at the RSA to discuss their pieces and the issues
Kevin Charman-Anderson considers how regulation can address culture. This is the last of our posts on media regulation in advance of our discussion event on Wednesday. The main and most pressing question in the wake of the massive corruption
Damian Radcliffe is the author of “Here and Now – UK hyperlocal media today”. In this post he argues that at a time when media and digital regulation is under review, hyperlocal media should be left alone. This is a
On 25 April, Demsoc is holding a discussion event on media regulation and new democracy at the RSA in London. This contribution to the debate comes from Dave Boyle. If you would like to attend, numbers are limited, but a
Good democracy needs good information. When an article starts like that, you can bet that before long we’ll be talking about the right of free speech, and maybe bringing in a quotation from a Founding Father or some other Enlightenment
If we discount the outriders of the press regulation debate – those who believe everything is fine and no regulation is needed; those who want tabloid editors subjected to tortures that would make Torquemada blanch – a polarity emerges. Most