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Living on Animal Farm

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By Jean Seaton
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate tenderness—the orphan chicks carefully sheltered in the big hoofs of the horses; Mollie the frivolous, vain pony; the care the animals take with each other; Benjamin the donkey’s relationship with Boxer the carthorse. Narrative worry sets in as the reader looks over the shoulders of the animals.
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Power Without Responsibility

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By James Curran, Jean Seaton
| Routledge Verified
This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; gives a subtle account of the impact of social media; and explores key debates about the role and politics of the media. Power Without Responsibility has become a standard textbook on media and other courses, but it has also gone beyond an academic audience to reach a wider public.
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Introduction: Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?

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By Suzanne Franks, Jean Seaton
| Wiley Online Library Verified
GOOD QUALITY information is a public utility: the rich and powerful will always have access to what they need to know, but poor people do not. Indeed, increasing inequalities in access to decent information underlie other more obvious inequalities. Bad information does not respect borders and yet democracy depends on informed citizens.
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