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Media Watchdog Takes Over Chinese Radio Frequency
Posted by Agence France Press on 11 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, Agenda Cutting
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By AFP In a symbolic call for free speech, Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders briefly took over a Chinese radio frequency shortly before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. |
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French Left Accuses Sarkozy of Intimidating Media
Posted by Reuters on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, Media Freedom
| By Reuters France’s opposition Socialists have accused the ruling UMP party of trying to intimidate the media in the latest of a series of debates on press freedom since President Nicolas Sarkozy took office a year ago. |
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Niger Charges 2 French Journalists
Posted by AP on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Africa, FR, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Dalatou Mamane, AP Authorities formally charged two French journalists with threatening state security for attempting to report on rebel groups in Niger’s volatile north, a crime punishable by death. |
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Sarkozy Media Strategy Under Scrutiny
Posted by BBC News on 17 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, Journalism, Television, Newspapers, BBC
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By Emma Jane Kirby, BBC News Is Nicolas Sarkozy’s media domination a good thing for France? |
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Covering The Paris Riots From The Inside
Posted by Huffington Post on 28 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, Blogs, Free Speech, Action, Journalism, New Media, Activism, Media Analysis
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By Conor Friedersdorf, Huffington Post What news coverage of the Paris riots needs is citizen journalists who live within the suburbs and will contribute, anonymously or not, to a blog or anything else that lends insight into the rioter’s mindset. |
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‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored
Posted by MTV on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Europe, US, CA, FR, UK, Politics, Ethics, Hillary, Journalism, Policy, Activism, France, Health Care
Free Press In France: The Right To Say What Politicians Want
Posted by NY Times on 25 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, Ownership, FR, Blogs, Free Speech, Technology, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, MySpace, Activism, France
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By Doreen Carvajal and Katrin Bennhold, NY Times The irreverent, six-week-old news site Rue89 crashed with heavy traffic after publishing an article about the failure of Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Cecilia, to vote in May in the second round of the presidential election, a scoop too hot for publication by the mainstream Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche. |
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YouTube Programs Channels In 9 Nations
Posted by AP on 19 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Viacom, Asia, IT, FR, UK, NO, Google, YouTube, Business
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By AP Unshaken by its legal problems in the United States, online video leader YouTube will attempt to extend its cultural reach and increase its moneymaking opportunities by programming new channels in nine other countries. |
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Found In Translation
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 24 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, New Media, Google, Wall Street Journal, France
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By Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal Search companies are trying to bridge language gaps with more sophisticated language-translation tools. |
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Sarkozy Aide To Head France’s Top TV Network
Posted by Agence France Press on 23 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, FR, Television, France
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By AFP French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s former deputy campaign manager was named on Tuesday as a senior executive to France’s top television network TF1. |
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Today’s Censorship For The Internet Age on Four Continents
Posted by MediaChannel on 08 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, US, FR, Free Speech, CN, Ethics, AU, TR, Media Freedom
Does new technology make it easier for governments to censor, or for people to circumvent censorship? News From France, Turkey, China, Australia, and the United States.
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Surrender Monkeys, French Weasels, Is the NY Post trying to say something?
Posted by MediaChannel on 08 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, News Corp, US, FR, Bush, IQ, Politics
Thursday’s front page of the New York Post depicts the two chairmen of the Iraq Study Group as “surrender monkeys,” suggesting that the bipartisan independent panel has urged the U.S. to “give up” and admit defeat in the war in Iraq.
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