Hacks in the spotlight
Journalism has become a popular subject on stage and on screen. Is a new play an elegy for the profession?
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Prospect’s latest issue: From taboo to Tolstoy
This month, the human population passes seven billion. The cover of Prospect asks “Too many people?” and the answer I have given is that there probably will be, if governments don’t do more than they have in the past two decades. I am not, as I have said in that... -
Editorial: From taboo to Tolstoy
Bronwen Maddox introduces the latest issue of Prospect -
We should teach “web savviness” in schools
Thanks to the internet, there is now more valuable, fantastic, Earth-shaking, life-saving information at our fingertips than ever before: more specialists with views on tap, more facts, credible journalism, monographs and books. There is also, of course, more utter nonsense, ranging from the lazily wrong to malicious propaganda dressed up... -
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The end of the journalists’ monopoly
“It’s 2010—time to get off of the Titanic and get onto the lifeboats,” Kevin Anderson, the Guardian’s digital research editor, told me. I wasn’t pleased. I thought: ”But the Titanic has an orchestra, a well-stocked bar, fine Egyptian cotton sheets. The lifeboats have nothing but freezing cold water.” I was... -
Absolutely nothing in the news
It seems fashionable to argue that the wheels are coming off Barack Obama’s foreign policy. It’s a position which the distinguished American scholar Philip Bobbitt stakes out in the most recent edition of Prospect. But, in truth, nothing much is happening in foreign affairs—and even if he himself had not... -
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