A deeply unsatisfying and unquestioning exhibition at Somerset House exposes some of the innate hypocrisies in the journalistic trade. Continue reading »
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If there was ever any further need to doubt the US involvement in the Middle East…
On 22 August, as reports swept the world about Libyan rebel forces advancing on Gaddafi’s stronghold in Tripoli, the (arguably) respected American news channel, CNN, published this picture showing the location of Tripoli in the Middle East: The problem being, of course, that the Tripoli they showed on the map is the wrong one – … Continue reading »
Is there a hidden significance in the newspaper coverage of the NoW scandal?
The revelation that the News of the World is to close in the wake of the phone hacking scandal has rocked the journalism world . But the shock is tempered with a twinge of guilt: NoW is not the only paper to have engaged in disreputable behaviour in the pursuit of a story, yet it … Continue reading »
A Married Man in Edinburgh
This is a post I wrote for the New Statesman’s Staggers blog On Monday evening last week, Tom MacMasters, a 40-year-old Middle East activist studying for a masters at Edinburgh University wrote a post on the homepage of the fictional blog about a lesbian Syrian woman he had been maintaining since February claiming that “Amina … Continue reading »
Twitter and the Revolution
Twitter, the microblogging site that has achieved widespread recognition over the past few weeks due to its role in the Arab uprisings, turns five today. Just a few years ago, “tweeting” was something that birds did, and the concept of sending instant, short messages to the world about the banalities of your everyday life seemed…well…ludicrous … Continue reading »
