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US Nets: Anchorless in Gaza

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If you wondered whether declin­ing view­ers and cor­por­ate belt tight­en­ing had a real on-screen resourcing impact on net­work news cov­er­age, check out Andrew Tyn­dall on the nets and Gaza:

In the sum­mer of 2006, when the Israel Defense Force headed north to fight with the Hezbol­lah mili­tia in south­ern Lebanon, all three net­works found the con­flict so news­worthy they dis­patched anchors to the region. ABC’s Charles Gib­son traveled to Jer­u­s­alem; NBC’s Brian Wil­li­ams to Tel Aviv and Haifa; CBS’ Bob Schief­fer in New York shared anchor­ing chores with Lara Logan in Israel. Con­tinue read­ing →

War 2.0: Israel’s post-journalism campaign in Gaza

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YouTube IDF channelWhatever 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 wrong word, but it’ll have to do — for the per­ceived “suc­cess” of Israel’s Gaza media campaign.

So let’s unpick it a little. At the most fun­da­mental level, Israel bene­fits from a very simple mes­sage: whatever hap­pens in Gaza is simply the tra­gic but inev­it­able con­sequence of years of rocket attacks. Con­tinue read­ing →

The growing significance of the UK media in covering US politics

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The TimesIf you wanted a sign of the grow­ing import­ance of the UK news media in report­ing US polit­ics (a phe­nomenon sup­por­ted by Matt Drudge, the now global online mar­ket in Eng­lish lan­guage news, and the largely apolit­ical US press), here it is.

Media Mat­ters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebut­tal ser­vice, turns its power­ful fisk­ing atten­tion to this Times report. Con­tinue read­ing →

Democracy and the media go together like…

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Ditchley ParkLike 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 per­fect para­graphs), gives his impres­sions below (bold, ital­ics, and broken paras are me).

For the record, I’m more pess­im­istic about demo­cracy than about journ­al­ism — but I also think Google — the acci­dental mono­pol­ist — should step up to the plate and fund some inde­pend­ent con­tent resource (listen — that’s the sound of me not hold­ing my breath). Con­tinue read­ing →