An Equal Share of Anger and Amusement
Posted on March 15, 2007
Filed Under What's New, For Argument's Sake |
Today started writing about food ethics, gave up with a headache and went in search of…. Went in search. Went ruminating on the trade. It took me across the water.
I find there’s an equal share of things to amuse and cause me anger. Reuters have funded a new journalism institute and it works in conjunction with St Antony’s College Oxford, coincidentally where I studied as a post-grad.
John Lloyd of the Financial Times is one of the wigs. Hmmm. John is an influential voice in British journalism, rightly so 20 years ago when he challenged socialists to think innovatively but of late a more conservative mind.
Richard Sambrook, who heads up global news at the BBC, is using too much of his blog to list links. He is a connector and jokingly acknowledges he might be part of the problem for a generation seeking change. Not so Richard. You just need to facilitate a different set of people from the one that makes up your obvious peer group.
Jay Rosen features on here and there in the British journalism blogworld. Jay and I disagreed heartily here about six months back.
Vin Crosbie is the stand-out thinker in this area but he makes money out of it commercially which might not sit well with the Brit-pack.
Finally alighted at Bryan Appleyard’s blog where he was highlighting London’s growing Olympic bill (£9 billion and counting). Appleyard is one of those thinkers it’s hard to avoid if you read the Sunday-Times, a paper that recently turned down my offer to rewrite the history of post-war Britain in a 3000 word article. We could have been contemporaries at Cambridge, had I ever studied there. I find his interest in the Olympics a little light. What’s the Internet doing to us Bryan?
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