Charlie Beckett
@charliebeckett.bsky.social
LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Communication & Media Studies
37%
Political science
35%
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Interesting pricing. I guess they are hoping first tranche of loyal readers will shell out then they'll discount heavily later. I got a year sub to the Washington Post for £15 last week...
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I agree Phil. As Crick wrote, the job of politics and politicians is to bridge the gap between unrealistic public expectations and reality. The failure of UK political media is they see their 'accountability' function as widening the same gap.
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social really is one of our most efficient broadcast journalists - relentless focus on facts and such aplomb
Interesting to see media obsessions with manifesto promises. Not sure public care. No one reads manifestos, no one really remembers party promises. Perhaps in our affective politics it is NOT the 'economy stupid'
And in my continuing fascinating commentary on BBC's bulletin tonight: why the ludicrous over coverage of a minor shooting in DC?
And then Coletta Smith at the BBC does exactly that. Excellent
Also: don't do vox pops as a way of relating it to 'real people' - do a proper audit of various cases - how people 'feel' matters but give us some facts
Also: are the BBC not paying Faisal Islam enough to afford a suit that fits?
My humble budget take: it's about time people realised you can't have low tax and great public services - especially during a global economic crisis
And if she meant Ken Clarke, it was a fedora, not a trilby
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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Absolutely mad, if true
Yes, the Internet unbundles and at the same time mainstream brands become more focused on their subscribers, so more partisan. It's the journalism, not the social media that is 'polarising'
It was a lovely journey so I'm not complaining, but it seemed wonderfully incoherent / even in the original!
Journalism’s new mission: understanding the human - Polis
There is a bias in journalism. Not against any particular party or point of view - it is a bias against understanding. Sound familiar? It is from John Birt's seminal article in The Times in 1975. He w...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
We should all go back and read John Birt's 1975 (!) Bias Against Understanding blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2017/0...
Journalism’s new mission: understanding the human - Polis
There is a bias in journalism. Not against any particular party or point of view - it is a bias against understanding. Sound familiar? It is from John Birt's seminal article in The Times in 1975. He w...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
We should all go back and read John Birt's 1975 (!) Bias Against Understanding blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2017/0...
Fascinating workshop with Swiss media execs at St Gallen university - clever, committed people in an odd media market: lots of quality but v fragmented and competitive - AI will help but lots challenges
I don't understand your point. My fault I'm sure. Everyone has always complained about lack of general public interest in policy. Stephen is blaming the BBC, you are blaming social media (?). It could be that the policy is not understandable? (Tho I admire your efforts to make it more so)
You have wildly unrealistic expectations of journalism, let alone the BBC that has to appeal universally. Your lofty perch propped up by elite wealthy subscription income gives you a distorted prism on public understanding.
I don't think that's true. You are falsely assuming everyone cared about policy before. They didn't. It's just that 'our' conversation about policy was in glorious isolation from any other noise
'Cheer loud and savour the moment' is a lovely sentiment - but on a train?
Swiss trains are wonderful.
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
Why is it a 'problem'?
The New Yorker was good on this. Mamdani is positively sensible compared to previous NYC incumbents. He has sold himself as a radical, but he might end up being lauded for being practical (including dealing with a lunatic president.)
It is. So much going on. Like Lear's fool or an embarrassing wedding.
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
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I find these novels by Balle utterly compelling (I listen to them while running- which makes them even more of a circuit) I love the Groundhog Day trope (Palm Springs was cute) but she really explores the trope in a dense, detailed way www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Fellow populists