How the loss of newsprint threatens our democracy and liberty

Tim Crook conjures up Orwell’s dystopian world by arguing, in a forthcoming book about the decline of print, that online media enable totalitarian control A forthcoming book, Lost for words: will journalism survive the slow decline of print?, contains 50 essays by editors (current and past), academics, commentators and newspaper executives.* In something of a sneak preview, here is an edited version of one chapter, “If print dies so does freedom”, by journalist TIM CROOK, professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. The vital social habit of buying and reading a newspaper is in catastrophic decline, but I cannot resist. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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