United Nations

Like Jeff Jar­vis, Charlie Beck­ett, and Richard Sam­brook, I too was at Ditch­ley recently for a con­fer­ence on the media and demo­cracy. Present com­pany excep­ted, it brought together a fas­cin­at­ing and lively group of people (not always the case at con­fer­ences). Sir Jeremy Green­stock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks in […]

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James Painter has just pro­duced a study called Counter-Hegemonic News [down­load pdf] — look­ing at Qatar’s Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish and Venezuela’s Tele­sur. I have to say, in the case of AJE, I think both the per­son­nel and the tra­di­tions they draw on are simply those of con­ven­tional foreign news.

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