Bøker av Patrick Chalmers

This book presents the findings of the Sir Rowland Hill Committee, a parliamentary inquiry into the state of the British postal service in the early 20th century. Alongside expert testimony and committee recommendations, the book includes excerpts from prominent journalists and commentators on the issue, offering a range of perspectives on the role of postal services in society. This is an illuminating read for anyone interested in the history of communications and technology.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

With riots and demonstrations on the streets and protest camps in dozens of cities around the world, political systems everywhere are in the spotlight.For Western representative democracies, that means people waking up to the illusion of influence in occasional votes versus their lack of any real power. They are finding how money acts via corporations, financial markets and a minority elite to occupy the vacuum.Fraudcast News, the confessions of an ex-Reuters reporter, dissects media's failure to highlight people's powerlessness. It shows how journalism, far from acting as a popular watchdog, suffers just the same problems of capture as governments themselves.Yet this book is a work of optimism and promise. Its conclusions lay out how ordinary citizens can revolutionise their democracies by revolutionising journalism, building from the grassroots upwards.