Private Passions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rxm
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Author: Julian Baggini
John Humphrys’s dismal legacy
After 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…
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Books Podcast
Talking to Tim Haigh about How The World Thinks.
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The Ethics of Interrogation
I’ve contributed an essay to Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy edited by Carl Fox and Joe Saunders. It’s about the importance of how media interviews with politicians are conducted for a healthy, accountable democracy.
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Lessons from a divided nation
Could Brexit be good for business? Perhaps – if only because it has taught us several important lessons about how not to conduct collective decision-making, which corporations would be wise to heed.
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