Larry Elliott wrote about Elinor Ostrom in yesterday's Guardian concluding:
"For the most part, the world is not run along the lines suggested by Ostrom. It is overfished, increasingly deforested, ravaged by those who care nothing about resource management and local communities, dominated by dogmatists who think they know best. But there's something heartening about an economist who doesn't claim to have all the answers and who suggests there is a different way of doing things."
Andrew Brown often seems to me to offer a very honest take on the media and his piece on the Royal pranksters is the latest in this vein:
"What's constant in this story is the assumption that we, the public, deserve to see others humiliated. Pity and scorn, it seems, are appetites which everyone has a right to gratify."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions.
No comments:
Post a Comment