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Whatever ones views of the rights and wrongs, Israel’s media operation to accompany its Gaza offensive has been an object lesson in the uses and limitations of War 2.0.
Talking to a senior Middle Eastern diplomat yesterday, and to a friend reporting from (or stuck) in Jerusalem, there is a (very) grudging - respect is the […]
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I‘ve been pondering the relationship between journalism and democracy of late, and so too have the academic commenters gathering at the blog of Social Science Research Council boss, Craig Calhoun.
Calhoun asks the question Sam Zell has already answered - What is the future of newspapers? And when social scientists smell blood, they’re mostly rubbing their […]
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NYT columnist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the ‘bloviators’ covering the Obama campaign. But in the course of his musings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. :
Journalists are still Americans — even if much of our audience doubts that — and in this time of grave uncertainty […]
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CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t believe.”
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On the one hand, they’re putting money into aggressive expansion of the newsgathering base (good strategic move), on the other - people are starting to notice their exposure. Take this from Follow The Media:
It was 1100 CET (0500EST) and having heard on the radio of bombings in Algiers FTM switched on CNN International to see […]
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I wrote an anniversary review of Al Jazeera English recently, pointing out the dilemma of running a globally “progressive-minded” news channel on behalf of a despotic regime.
Here is an email exchange with someone at Al Jazeera English in Doha, responding to that piece:
…I am a tad disappointed with your recent Press Gazette article on ‘Al […]
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Here’s a piece I wrote for Press Gazette on Al Jazeera English, one year on.
In the gardens of Versailles you can visit a charming monument to France’s conservative, construction-crazed 18th-century monarchy. It’s the Petit Hameau, an idealised village built at the whim of Marie Antoinette as a way of “connecting” with the great unwashed. Nicely […]
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
