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Death of Democracy: West condemns crackdown on media in Iran
Posted by MediaChannel on 25 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, Media Freedom, Middle East
| By International Business Times Political leaders in the West are increasingly concerned and stepping up their rhetoric on Iran’s brutal crackdown. |
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Air Bus AF 447: Sorrow, lack of information and sensationalism
Posted by Global Voices on 08 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Blogs, Journalism
| By Thiana Biondo, Global Voices Much criticism and discussion is taking place about the disrespectful way in which the media have been covering the loss of the lives of the 228 on board, and the lack of information regarding the disaster. |
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Obama Electrifies The World: Can We Believe The Hype?
Posted by Danny Schechter on 08 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, Commentary, Obama, Agenda Cutting
Shock jocks: voice of America or voice of hate?
Posted by Guardian Unlimited on 12 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, Radio, Agenda Setting
| By Chris McGreal, Guardian At last Michael Savage has someone to be really angry at. Not the faceless targets of many of his shows: hordes of disease-ridden Mexican illegal immigrants spreading cholera and swine flu, or black people taking jobs from better deserving whites because of affirmative action, or gays subverting the very foundation of America’s existence. Not to mention Barack Obama’s secret socialist agenda. |
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Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote
Posted by AP on 12 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Journalism, New Media
| By Shawn Pogatchnik, AP When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. |
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Covering Violent Crimes: A View From Holland
Posted by MediaChannel on 11 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Iraq War, Media Analysis
| By Kookie Habtegaber Does violence know color and ethnic background these days? The questions we ask more than anything else reflect how we have become so brainwashed by the war-on-terror and fear of terrorism. |
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Daily Show: Battle of the Banned (Video)
Posted by MediaChannel on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, Humor, Radio, Censorship
John Oliver defends Great Britain’s ban of Michael Savage because a civilized society is more important than freedom of speech.
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Web Tool ‘As Important As Google’
Posted by MediaChannel on 04 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, Europe, New Media
| By BBC News The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine. |
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World Press Freedom Day 2009: Focus On Media, Dialogue And Mutual Understanding
Posted by IFEX on 01 May 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Commentary, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Latin America, Australia
Journalists from around the world will converge in Doha, Qatar on May 3rd to celebrate UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day, whose theme this year is the potential of the media to foster dialogue, mutual understanding and reconciliation.
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A flawed first draft of history
Posted by Financial Times on 28 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, Europe, Journalism, Economy
| By Lionel Barber, Financial Times The financial media are accused of missing the global financial crisis. Asleep at the wheel. Head in the clouds. No cliche has been left unturned as reporters, commentators - yes, even editors - have been castigated for failing to warn an unsuspecting public of impending disaster. Do these charges add up? To paraphrase the killer question from the Watergate hearings: what did the press know and when did it know it? |
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Advertisements Draw Attention to Journalists in Danger
Posted by World Association of Newspapers on 23 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Action, Media Freedom, Middle East, World Press, Activism, Latin America, Australia
| By WAN An advertisement, along with a package of other materials, is being offered by the World Association of Newspapers for publication world-wide on May 3, World Press Freedom Day. |
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MediaChannel Celebrates 10 Years Online
Posted by MediaChannel on 23 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Commentary, Politics, Action, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Middle East, Iraq War, Activism, Latin America, Australia, Media Analysis, Economy, Agenda Setting, Agenda Cutting
Happy 10th Birthday MediaChannel.org! It’s MediaChannel’s 10th year online serving as your media watchdog!
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UN Launches World Digital Library
Posted by Financial Times on 21 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, New Media, Middle East, Latin America, Australia
| By Esther Bintliff, Financial Times The world’s most ambitious online library of primary sources has been launched by Unesco, giving unlimited public access to some of the rarest and most protected cultural texts in existence. |
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Will it be the readers, after all, who fund our newspaper websites?
Posted by The Independent on 20 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, North America, Europe, Journalism, New Media
| By Donald Trelford, Independent UK With two American titles folding every week, global advertising apparently in freefall, and sales here dipping as readers cut their household bills in the recession, newspapers are desperately seeking an answer that has eluded them to the industry’s most urgent question: how can they make their websites pay? |
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Global Recession: The World Is Talking. Are We Listening?
Posted by Global Voices on 20 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: News, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Commentary, Middle East, Latin America, Australia, Economy
This global roundup of blogs gathers stories of people around the world who are struggling to survive the economic downturn.
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