Posts from April 25th, 2010

Council propaganda

I came across this in the local paper from two weeks ago, Tim Hobden makes an argument against the council producing news. It made me think back to an article George Monbiot wrote, here’s the relevant extract: There’s one respect in which the local press is confronting power: by campaigning against the free papers published [...]

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you can’t copyright the revolution, comrade

Piracy is where media is copied and shared without being paid for, the media is a vessel for information, and this information can be copied at almost no monetary cost. It distorts the rules of capitalism. Information wants to be free, people recognised this a long time ago when they built libraries. The capitalist answer [...]

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Ms. Lutra-Gem

I’ve been on a sort of waning buzz since I got home, partly because it’s the end of school and the beginning of the revision period, and partly because someone brought in their sketchbook and showed it to the rest of our form. Inside were sketches of various expressions and a character, when asked about [...]

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