Notes
1. These narratives owe much to the work of the Frankfurt school and to British writers such as the Leavises and Richard Hoggart. They shape much academic writing on the modern press, for example, CitationLee; CitationCurran and Seaton; and more recently CitationChalaby.
2. Here it is worth noting that I was taught a fairly canonical ‘Western Civ’ curriculum – similar to the one Winston draws from – and only subsequently discovered more radically inclusive approaches to known history, such as Howard CitationZinn's A People's History of the United States.
3. For an account of new media changes to journalism ethics, see CitationFriend and Singer, Online Journalism Ethics. On the challenge to journalism from global journalism, see Ward, ‘Philosophical Foundations for Global Journalism Ethics’ and The Invention of Journalism Ethics, especially the epilogue.
4. However, I would add that her particular example – that I was wrong to identify the Panther Valley, PA entrepreneurs as the pioneers of cable TV in the USA – is the result of my failure to triangulate and update my information on this matter which I obtained from these men when helping to establish the Cable Television Museum at Penn State in the late 1980s. Mullen also points out that I lack the concision of Walter Benjamin to which I can only reply by further apologizing and saying I am honoured to be mentioned in the same sentence.
5. And television is tactile – a curious conclusion based, I have always thought, on the fact that McLuhan's NTSC set, in the basement of his Toronto house, was so out of tune (and untenable) as to require an intelligent observer such as himself to reason that the evident attractiveness of the medium to others could not possibly be a matter of scopophilia alone.
6. I have written at length on the conflict between free expression and privacy in connection with the European Convention on Human Rights (Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries).