The Information Age

"The irony of the Information Age is that

it has given new respectability to

uninformed opinion"

Veteran reporter John Lawton speaking to the American

Association of Broadcast Journalists, 1995

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Apart from the fact that I feel somewhat daunted by the task and suspect it will raise me to new heights of respectability if the above quote is to be believed, I must apologize to those of you whose papers I missed. Quite apart from the fact that it is impossible to attend two simultaneous streams, I was unable to attend all of the sessions in either of the streams. My comments should therefore be viewed in that context.