Category Archives: Journalism

Oh dear, Andrew Marr…

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Dave

I don’t tend to respond to this sort of thing, but this one pressed several of my buttons. The so-called “citizen journalists” will never offer a real replacement to newspapers and television news, he told Cheltenham Literature Festival. He said: … Continue reading →

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Moronic reporting of non issues

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Dave

Take a look at this story, excitingly titled on the BBC News site “Council Twitter users face rebuke“. Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority’s standards committee for using social networking sites. The trouble is, no they’re … Continue reading →

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Are video games art?

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Dave

John Lanchester is quickly becoming my favourite contributor to the London Review of Books. So much of his writing is both accessible and informative. This issue he looks at computer games: From the economic point of view, this was the … Continue reading →

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Rewriting the rules

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dave

John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at http://bit.ly/fkxik), … Continue reading →

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Theo Tait on Gordon Burn

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Dave

Nice, longish essay in the LRB this issue, by Theo Tait on Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday which I have written about now and again. A more unified and organised book would have excluded many of Born Yesterday’s highlights: the brilliant … Continue reading →

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