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Published in: openDemocracyUKA monster threatens UK broadcasting? It's Sky, not the BBC
By focusing on pruning the BBC, the media commentariat are losing sight of a greater danger to broadcasting in the UK, Sky.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Tories and the BBC - a little line in the Manifesto points a finger at public broadcasting
The Tory manifesto in the UK's election battle signals hand-to-hand combat over the future of the BBC. OK's editor...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC's shoot a small puppy strategem
The BBC Strategy Review is given a duly cynical reading by Richard Collins
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA guide to the recently passed Digital Economy Bill
A guide to coverage of and responses to the passing of the Digital Economy Bill
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to save a public service broadcaster: what next for Channel 4?
Channel 4 received a battering in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report last month....
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Published in: HomeAuthenticity and textual violence: the case for Autofiction
Is it possible for Life-Writing to actually present authentic truths, or do they always fall into the betrayal of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Ofcom pay TV review: what does it really mean?
David Elstein, a former BSkyB head of programming, assesses the likely impact of Ofcom's attempt to take on one of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic service media in the digital age: A Connection Factory debate
Videos from the recent conference, 'Public service broadcasting in the digital age' at Westminster University.
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Published in: HomeItchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible: Notes on the 10-Year Making of The Suiciders
Writer Travis Jeppesen reflects on the tactic of "bad writing" and the creative process involved in the writing of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen
Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. Yet the broader impact of the arms race on politics and society...
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Published in: HomeOne or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art
A brief theoretical look at how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy of becoming-wolf can be applied to...
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Published in: openIndiaMoving Parts part 3: Guddu and Pintu
In this third excerpt from the Moving Parts series Ruchir travels to the town of Khhair with cousins Guddu and...
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Published in: oDRStyle over kitsch: the four lives of David Sarkisyan
Russia has lost a great dissident campaigner for Moscow’s built heritage with the death of David Sarkisyan, museum...
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Published in: openIndiaMoving Parts part 2: Hajiriya and Gajiriya
In this second excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits two brothers, Hajiriya and Gajiriya,...
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Published in: HomeIntroducing the Discourses series
openDemocracy is launching a new quarterly series of live art events featuring art exhibitions and discussions on a...
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Published in: oDRArthur Koestler: 20th century man
Arthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a...
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Published in: openIndiaMoving Parts: Prajapati
In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in...
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Published in: 50.50From a culture of war to a culture of peace
The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need...
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Published in: HomeFiction as truth, not myth
openDemocracy author Heather McRobie speaks with Ollie Brock about her upcoming novel where she looks at both...
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Published in: oDROlympean blow at the Kremlin
Russian national pride has been badly dented by poor performance at the winter Olympics. It is being widely read as...