The people who hold Trump, Farage, Javier Milei and their copycats accountable cannot be part-time freelancers or bored TikTokers. The issues that journalism is supposed to shield us from are way too grand and their subjects way too powerful for individual users - or even ad-hoc online collectives - to be able to tackle on their own.
— The New Censorship by Ayala Panievsky 📚
Started reading: The New Censorship by Ayala Panievsky 📚
My notes from a fascinating but worrying talk between Emily Maitlis and my colleague Dr Ayala Panievsky about how populist politicians manipulate media to shift the conversation in their direction – and what journalists can do about it.
Worrying stuff, but with some hope.
24 years ago, I started blogging.
That’s nearly a quarter of a century.
It will be one of the defining activities of my life. And I'’d never have predicted that back in 2001.
2001: the year blogging changed the world – but it would be decades before we realised how much.
And I’m no longer as sure as I was that it was a good thing.
Packed house for this discussion between Emily Maitlis and Dr Ayala Panievsky, despite a long day of teaching/learning…
Listening to Emily Maitlis interviewing my colleague Ayala Panievsky about her new book The New Censorship.
I thought we had autumnal mist forming outside the swimming pool, but as soon as I went outside, the smell told me it was someone burning something. And it’s still two weeks from bonfire night!
Ten years ago this would have been very exciting to me: Movable Type 9 Released.
But then they started charging $499 for a licence, and MT and I were done. But I have a lot of nostalgia for it. It was MT that really made me fall in love with blogging.
