Reading for Battle

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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In full: Jeremy Paxman's MacTaggart lecture
By trying to give the public what they think it wants, Television disavows its ability to enlighten
Jeremy Paxman, Telegraph, 25 August 2007

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Goodbye to newspapers
The replacement of old-fashioned newspaper publishers with moneymen and their armies of market researchers shows that it is on the ownership and management side of journalism that the gravest problems exist
Russell Baker, The New York Review of Books, 16 August 2007

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When they stop calling
Scandals over fake phone-ins betray the industry's desperate need to 'connect with the public' through audience participation
Mark Lawson, Guardian, 20 July 2007

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Who Says Video Games Have to be Fun? The Rise of Serious Games
Headline-grabbing subjects like global warming or third-world poverty aren’t the only ones tackled in serious games. Some of the genre’s most captivating offerings take on topics that are a bit further from the limelight.
Bryan Ochalla, Gamasutra, 29 June 2007

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The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but point-scoring males
The internet is too often like a stuffy meeting room on a bad night
Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, 10 April 2007

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Harassing the paparazzi
Tessa Mayes, spiked, 1 April 2007

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It may start as an innocent flirtation, but be warned, you too could become a lonely Myspace addict
Myspace: a place to post countless photos of yourself doing stupid, inane poses and write gushing blogs for others to read?
Peaches Geldof, Guardian, 29 March 2007

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Can u speak teenager?
Online social networking sites are the key to a teenager’ world, it is like a garganutuan digital version of a Jane Austen novel
Lucy Austin, Telegraph, 23 March 2007

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The political power of the network
We have to hope that new technologies will lead to changes in the distribution of power and not merely superficial changes to political practice
Bill Thompson, BBC, 22 February 2007

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Big Question: Does the internet liberate or undermine democracy?
For real democracy to function, somebody has to make, and enforce the rules. The internet is no exception
Andy McSmith, Independent, 22 February 2007

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