Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Are embargo breaks bad for science?
Once again the thorny issue of embargoes has raised its head, reminding us that journalists and science press officers are fundamentally different animals.
Fiona Fox,
On Science and the Media Blog, 30 June 2010
'He says, she says' just doesn't work for science
The journalistic norm of balance has no corollary in the world of science ... where consensus builds on repeated testing and re-testing of an idea.
Fiona Fox,
BBC College of Journalism Blog, 29 June 2010
Gaming for Glory at Greenbelt
Doubtless there will be critics who see gnostic heresy in the eternal and complex battle between dark and light in the fantasy worlds of video games. But in an era where it has become a new heresy to judge that there is any qualitative difference at all between individuals, especially children, a medium that teaches that there are indeed such things as good and bad, right and wrong, has in my view to be Good News.
Ruth Gledhill & Paul Govan,
Times Online, 13 August 2009
A delayed appetite for the facts
Why is the British left so shocked about the events in Northern Ireland portrayed in Steve McQueen's powerful film, Hunger?
Kirk Leech,
Guardian Comment is Free, 21 October 2008
Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World
Beckett sees the growth of new media and technologies as an opportunity for, rather than a threat to, the traditional practices of journalism. However, he observes, those practices will need to change and adjust to take advantage of the opportunities offered by what he calls networking journalism.
Charlie Beckett, Wiley-Blackwell,
20 May 2008
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