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What's the responsibility of the media? | 91 comments (91 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I was vaguely staggered to read this in the leader pages of last week's Economist: "A newspaper is a package of content - politics, sport, share prices, weather and so forth - which exists to attract eyeballs to advertisements"

On the issue of rising inequality mentioned by Jerome, the authors of "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" have been doing a decent job of getting the word out in the media.

The book is selling pretty well it seems:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirit-Level-Societies-Almost-Always/dp/1846140390

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781846140396/The-Spirit-Level

by MaBozza (greig.aitken AT gmail.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 10:55:01 AM EST
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Re: The fourth estate (none / 1)

I have that on my list. Any good?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 10:56:10 AM EST
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