By Justin Schlosberg This article originally appeared at the Huffington Post and is reposted here with their kind permission. The sentencing of Chelsea Manning to 35 years imprisonment for leaking comes off the back of a series of legal and extra-legal attacks against those who speak truth to power. In his reflections on the latest scandal to involve the NSA whistleblower … [Read more...]
Croatia’s intriguing experiment with ‘public commissioning’
This article was written by Dan Hind and originally published on Al Jazeera. It is reposted here with kind permission. In 2010 I published a book about the role of the media in politics, The Return of the Public. I argued that the current organisation of the media, in which states cooperate with a handful of large private companies to manage national systems of knowledge, … [Read more...]