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Reassembling Journalism and Objectivity

This is a very belated, ambitious response to the Future of Media 08 summit which I attended on behalf of LP.

We need facts.

They underpin all the modern abstract systems we’ve come to know, love and get angry with from time to time. So when facts collapse, we need publics more than at any other time to gather around, examine what went wrong and piece things and institutions together again. In this sense, the rise of projects reattaching facts to theory in recent decades probably corresponds to the decline of the liberal model of Journalism whereby the facts (’just the facts’) are disseminated. Continue reading ‘Reassembling Journalism and Objectivity’

Future of Media08 - Future of Journalism

Lots of smart people discussing new and old media here at Luna Park. Check out the twitter feed on #fom08 for commentary. More to follow when I get to a proper keyboard. (this is from my mobile)