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    Blogging – a force for good

    THE fallout over the Damian McBride smear campaign continues apace – not least amongst the Labour Party’s online community. They are anxious not to panic and throw the baby (new media) out with the dirty bathwater (McBride’s smears) by suddenly rejecting the web-based campaigning epitomised...

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    Is this the death of local newspapers?

    LOCAL newspapers have become amongst the first victims of the global recession with major job losses, pay freezes and closures announced. Some commmentators are already predicting that the future for local papers is bleak, almost terminal, as they are hit both by the economic downturn and the...

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  • Can traditional media survive in the digital age? Our American cousins say “yes”

    Can traditional media survive in the digital age? Our American cousins say “yes”

    A SURVEY from America may give us an insight into the future shape of communications here in Britain. Despite prophets of doom forecasting that the days of the traditional media are dead – or at least rapidly dying – are US cousins appear more optimistic....

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