SOCIAL media will not be sufficient to communicate left-wing messages in Britain’s hostile news environment, a packed Morning Star fringe meeting at TUC Congress heard today.
Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke praised the paper’s detailed coverage of industrial disputes and campaigns, highlighting the Star’s coverage of the 700-day oil workers strike against Exxon Mobil and UGL/Cimic in Australia.
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko said: “Some say the development of social media has broken the power of the traditional press.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR



