f all of Manchester’s historic public houses, the timber-framed Tudor-period ‘Old Wellington’ and its nextdoor neighbour ‘Sinclair’s Oyster Bar’ are the two most famous. While it’s fairly common knowledge that they were moved to their current location in the 1990s to accommodate the regeneration of the city centre, not many people know where they came from, how old they actually are, what they’ve witnessed over the years… Or that they weren’t just moved once. But twice!
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According to the writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit, US media are failing to cover Donald Trump properly. “His incapacity to be coherent is pretty much hidden from the public, unless they’re listening directly or reading alternative media,” she says.
Solnit, whose essay Men Explain Things To Me inspired the word “mansplaining”, says she’s convinced that the US mainstream press—including the New York Times—are “sanewashing” the former president and the gibberish he has spouted during the election campaign.
Instead of showing how rambling and off-topic he is, they piece together fragments of his speeches to come up with a few crisp sentences.
Solnit joined Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber on the latest episode of the Media Confidential podcast.
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This video is part of an art history project assigned to Art 1 students at LL Jr./Sr. High.
