Watching Brief: Safe Spaces Post-Truth & 'Experts' - Jan 2017
Welcome to Watching Brief. A new monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube.
As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Links:
Warning to archaeology pupils that 'bones can be scary' sparks fresh fears over cosseted generation of students:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3805872/Warning-archaeology-pupils-bones-scary-sparks-fresh-fears-cosseted-generation-students.html
If archaeology students can’t cope with ‘scary bones’, they really are doomed:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/archeology-students-cant-cope-scary-bones-really-doomed/
UCL FAILS TO DEFEND STAFF FROM CHEAP MAIL SHOT AT “TRIGGER WARNINGS”:
http://thepipeline.info/blog/2016/10/12/ucl-fails-to-defend-staff-from-cheap-mail-shot-at-trigger-warnings/