The Cambria Zeitgeist

What's Happening? What's New? What's Evil?

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Interesting long form articles to read:

Willy & Bill of the amazing Satirical Planet News substack explain why many, self included, no longer watch, listen or subscribe to the BBC. The license fee itself is a huge dis-incentive but the insidious drift away from it's core mandate and independence are also factors.

"Every institution reveals its politics in the way it writes its own rules. The BBC’s governance structure was built to guarantee independence, yet over time it evolved into a system that rewarded proximity to power. The Corporation did not collapse under pressure; it adapted to it, until adaptation itself became identity.

Journalists once trained to question power now hesitate at its edges. Decisions that were once guided by public interest are filtered through the lens of reputational risk. The fear of appearing biased has replaced the ambition to reveal truth."

"Agency means sitting in the captain’s chair. It means being awake when everyone else is sleeping. It means seeing the console full of decisions that need making, none of them with obvious answers, all of them yours to own."

'What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.' — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation.

Although we are, thankfully, well out of the loop and have zero 'influence', out there are clever thoughtful writers and media shaping the new zeitgeist (see links below) well worth reading and following.

The People we follow:

Cory Doctorow, Joan Westenberg, Scott Galloway, Enrique Dans, John Wight, Shankar Narayan, The Writing Cooperative, Wes O'Donnell. Yascha Mounk, The Free Press, Robert Reich, The Unreported Truth, Racket News, Tina Brown, Alberto Romero, Will Hayward, Nation.Cymru, Daily Beast, Liminal Britain, After Babel, Nasim Nicholas Taleb, Satirical Planet News

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