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Night-Wing Media: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart’s Lessons in Discourse
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Night-Wing Media: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart’s Lessons in Discourse

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 / 14 October 2015
Through the levelling power of humour, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report cut through the culture's sensationalism and panic to remind us of the baseline of normality beneath all the hysteria.
Pussy Riot Isn’t the Only Band Rocking on Russia
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Pussy Riot Isn’t the Only Band Rocking on Russia

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 / 27 February 2014
From clever Soviet-era symphonies to current black market recordings, Russian musicians have a long history of working around the state's culture of censorship.
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The Great Gatsby Re-Incarnated a la Don Draper and Barack Obama

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 / 29 May 2013