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Besieged In China
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streaming video! An APTN producer-camera person was forced out of China by the country's crackdown on journalists and Associated Press TV's lack of will to deal with the issue. In this MediaChannel Whistleblower, Béatrice Turpin wends her way through the convoluted politics of corporate journalism in the Middle Kingdom.
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Unleaded Journalism: How The Media Drops The Ball
Every investigative journalist knows that a story only has impact when other outlets pick it up or advance it. Automotive journalist Jamie Kitman spent two years uncovering how lead was deliberately, and unnecessarily, added to gasoline. He blew the whistle in The Nation and then unsuccessfully tried to get his colleagues to pursue the issue. Now he is blowing the whistle on media indifference.
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Channel 4 Gets Off Cheap
"The Other Side," the new series from Britain's Channel 4, promises to turn "the long drawn-out world of documentary TV upside down" by featuring work from up-and-coming filmmakers, produced at lightening speed. But British producer Simon Kerr blows the whistle on this factory-like system where cheapo productions make for good PR while the producers end up paying the costs.
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A Shell Over The Truth
When the Nigerian junta hanged the environmental and human-rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa, ITN's Channel Four News ran a reverent obituary, complete with a freeze-frame of Wiwa's smiling face. So why did the network kill Bruce Whitehead's explosive interview with him when he was alive?
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