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One thing Alan really is right about: most journalists, academics & politicians who treat the online world as a *supplement* to print & broadcast discourse fundamentally fail to grasp how profoundly media consumption has changed. Politics requires a public sphere & changing one changes the other!

the dream gig! Couldn't hack the impartiality + gag rules though. After the revolution!

I admit to being tickled at the thought of my BIG HEAD appearing on your phones as you listen

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Oh I would love to see that!! It's an astonishing place. You see it and think, yes, of course you built a Poseidon temple here.

Yeah! He's an interesting guy. Genuine liberal progressive but mostly prominent in my memory for being disappointing on Iraq (which he admits was a catastrophe now). V glad he stood up yesterday