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Entries by Jamie Thunder from 07/2012

Journalism vs Academics: Time for a Truce

| Posted 07.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Poynter, Academia, Sociology, Journalism, UK Media, Journalism vs Academics, UK News

Poynter had an interesting post earlier this week on a study about errors in news reports. The researchers looked at 2,000 stories in the Swiss and Italian press, and contacted people quoted in those stories.

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Britain's Olympians are a Class Apart

| Posted 07.15.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Team GB, Olympics, Public Schools, Privately Educated Athletes, Olympians, Athletes, Class, Private Schools, Social Divide, UK Sport News

Scratch at the egalitarian sheen of the modern Games, however, and there lies a gaping class chasm. Figures from the Department of Media, Culture and Sport show that in the 2008 Olympic Games around a quarter of Britain's athletes came from independent schools, compared to just 7% of the population as a whole. Our elite athletes are elite in more ways than one.

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