What Is Certain Is That

At Least In The West, Politicians, Corporations And Media Moguls Can No Longer Take For Granted Their Power To Control The Public Discourse - And Have It Go Unchallenged.

There Is No Education System In The World - None At All - That's Better Than Its Average Teacher.

The Most Important Thing I Think Teachers Can Do For Young People Is To Make Them Inquiring, Is To Ensure That They Know How To Gather Information, That They Check Information And They Take Their Information From A Multiplicity Of Sources.

Film And The Other Creative Industries Are Being Transformed By Digital Technologies.

Newspapers And Their Editors Have To Become As Accountable As The Rest Of Us - They Are Not 'a Special Case,' And They Have Only Themselves To Blame For Having Lost The Argument For 'exceptionalism' - And With It The Right To 'self-regulation.