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What responses are appropriate when faced with a propagandist? The nation of Norway was confronted with the horror of having to allow the perpetrator of the slaughter of their children the opportunity to publicly promote his ideology in court, in the guise of presenting his justification.

This would have furthered the…

We have seen a momentos change in the media landscape during this last week, and questions of media ethics are at the core; the catalyst, the attention given to the phone hacking of Milly Dowler's phone by a Private Investigator who was working for the News of the World.

This story is far from being about phone hacking though. It is not about one newspaper, or one company. Embroiled in all of this are many newspapers, the Metropolitan Police, the Press Complaints Commission,…

We routinely use a variety of communication methods everyday. Even if we are living in a hermitage we still use methods of communication - though there may not always be some one there to receive and interpret the messages we convey. Surely then we should all be competent at communicating – and on the whole, we get by.…