Update
Hi all, just a very quick note to apologise for the current lack of chasing answers at Chasing Answers.
So far the festive season has been full, quite literally, of death, despair and exams although these have been tempered somewhat with a degree of Christmas cheer.
Suffice to say everything is now hunky dory and normal blogging services will resume shortly.
Coming up on the horizon…
- I’ll be giving my take on the George Monbiot debate currently taking place over at Media Lens.
- I’m in the process of, excuses the pun, digging around the issues affecting my home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. (There’s a crane, a huge crane and a series of beautiful gardens that look like a bomb site. Just what exactly are the RSC up to?)
- I’m intending to examine three of the major influences that brought me into the world of journalism: one an author, one a TV programme and the last one is the most incredible person I’ve ever met.
So thank you all again for reading and for all those who voted for Chasing Answersas the best blog in the end-of-year University College Falmouth Broadcast and International Journalism Christmas Awards.
Tears were shed, oracles consulted and inner wars were waged. Very disappointed we couldn’t collect the award in person and couldn’t collect the best bears award either – but watch out in the new year – the beard is coming.
And on that bombshell…
Here’s The Pogues to tickle your festive fancy and on a serious note, normal blogging practice will resume in the coming days.
Until then, good night and good luck. Kirsty, Shane. Take it away…
I look forward to reading the new blog entry, when it’s ready. On the recent Monbiot/Medialens debate, which Tommy mentions, I’d like to point out to readers that there are at least two sides to the story, although one side – mine – is not as well-publicised as Medialens’s. I’m grateful to George Monbiot for posting (on the ML board) a prominent link to my take on it (and for standing up to the wave of ad hominem abuse directed at me by some Medialens supporters): http://dissident93.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/full-reply-to-medialens/
Meanwhile, a correspondent of mine has pointed out an interesting contradiction in Medialens’s argument, which I’d missed: http://dissident93.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/feedback-received/
I don’t claim to be absolutely right in any of these matters, particularly when the debate seems diverted into a kind of semantic swampland. But my facts are accurate, my quotes are correct and my interpretations are much more soundly based than some people over at Medialens would like to suggest.
Best wishes,
Robert
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