Monthly Archives: May 2010

Next time things get weird I’ll think of this

By Julie Starr | Published: May 30, 2010
I’m reading former CIA director Allen W Dulles’ book about the intelligence business. Why? No particular reason. Saw it in Parsons on a Wellington trip earlier this year and it looked interesting. In a chapter about how deception is used by intelligence folk he gives an example of how a rigged accident can be used [...]
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Here’s what I want from news orgs

By Julie Starr | Published: May 29, 2010
A conversation this week got my brain fizzing again about news. (Nice to fizz rather than funk). The conversation ranged through what is perceived to be wrong with the news business, what’s right about it, what impact it’s having on society, what journalism graduates need to know, who journalists need to be. The usual stuff. [...]
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