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HARDtalk: Howard Jacobson

Is social media ruining our attention spans?

14/09/2017 GMT

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Stephen Sackur speaks to British writer Howard Jacobson.

Stephen Sackur speaks to British writer Howard Jacobson. Is he an artist swimming against an irresistible cultural tide?

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to British writer Howard Jacobson. 
Is social media bad for public discourse? The Man Booker prize-winning author thinks the internet is changing the way we use words, and not for the better. But is he an artist swimming against an irresistible cultural tide?


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