Alan Miller: director, NY Salon
Zombies-in-waiting
Szántó believes that the power of PR and imaging ensures that citizens’ emotions and opinions are shaped without them being able to react. It is a kind of Soma, that we are not aware we are digesting. The goal, he concludes, is not control the public by political means, but rather to ‘seduce them’.
Politics and Science: How their Interplay Creates Public Policy
Interrogating the role of policy in the key areas of energy, the environment and public health, the event was a welcome departure from some of the more hysterically minded junk-science infused ‘debates’ that pass for serious discussion.
‘A Million Little Pieces’ fallout
It is a little rich when the expectation and demand in publishing increasingly is for nastier, sadder, more despicable sides of human life to be reeled off, for publishers to complain when writers then try it on.
Struck Dumb
Workers from the Local 100 of the TWU were used as a stage army in the service of the union leadership’s negotiation strategy, without being engaged in discussions about what could be hoped for or expected. Then, as the going got tough, the strike was called off.
