Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis
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A presentation in the Thinktalk series
Organised by Selwyn Community Education
Selwyn College Auckland 26 June 2018
Fake News: How to destroy trust and poison democracy. You might think that sounds like a gross over-statement. I hope by the time you have finished reading this you will come to see that it is too close to the truth for comfort. Continue reading “Fake News: How to destroy trust and poison democracy”
Last week I finished teaching my last course at the University of Auckland. It was a Summer School paper titled “Journalism in Practice” in which the theories of journalism and media were contrasted with the realities of producing journalism. Eight prominent journalists and an eminent media lawyer gave lectures in the course. What follows is my sign-off to the class…. Continue reading “My last class”
ADDRESS TO REMUERA ROTARY 6 NOVEMBER 2017
I covered my first New Zealand general election half a century ago. Continue reading “Political lessons in a small country”
President Donald Trump may be blamed for many things but you can’t hold him responsible for creating the post-truth environment. It existed, in one form or another, even before Julius Caesar justified the annexation of Gaul by bad-mouthing the neighbouring Germanic tribes. Perhaps it existed even before Pericles, to borrow from the Tony Blair songbook, sexed-up the need for the Peloponnesian Wars.
Continue reading “Communicating truth in a post-truth world”