Mac201 Media Studies 1

This module no longer runs.
It was replaced by MED260 but then the university “paused” recruitment to the programme that served it, essentially killing off a degree that has run since the 1990s.

Strikes!

Strikes! Pie lays into all the bloody poor people for daring to ask for better pay, conditions and job security. https://www.jonathanpie.com/

The Daily Express has a bit of track record when it comes to telling the voting public who should be the leader of the country. How’s that working out?

Did you know…. 20/55 prime minsters went to Eton College?

Cheap at £42500 a year…

The school that rules Britain A new memoir recalls life at Eton College – the school for the country's most powerful and privileged. John Self looks at how it has captured writers' imaginations for decades.

Other than the awful situation the folk find themselves in during Shanghai, Vice have had to rely upon unverified social media posts from Chinese sites (themselves subject to significant pruning) to tell this story.

The video of people screaming that was reposted to Twitter was particularly haunting

Disturbing Videos Show the Chilling Human Toll of Shanghai’s Zero-COVID Fight The mega-city of 25 million people is enduring China’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and the response from authorities has been swift and brutal.

Joe Rogan and the problem of false balance This is going to be a relatively short post because I only have one simple point that I want to make. Namely, “balance” does not mean presenting conspiracy theories and nonsense alongside facts as …