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Cree Walkers, Ralph Klein, Richard Griffiths, Shehnaz Ishtiaq, Obsolete Words, Whale Bone Porn, The Toronto Star vs. Rob Ford, Why Did We Stop Crucifying People?

Posted on March 31, 2013 | Leave a comment

• Podcast 36 | Week of 31.03.2013

Scrimshaw, handiwork created by whaler made from the teeth of a sperm whale. Image shot 2010. Exact date unknown.

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News of the World and the Ethics of Journalism

Posted on July 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

The demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, though sensational, is of little significance either economically or journalistically. Now and again a journalist is found to be in breach of her profession’s code of ethics, or in more scandalous instances of common decency, and the requisite heads come off. The ordinary business of journalism — which ought itself to be the scandal, but isn’t — goes unremarked.

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