adrian monck

Month: March 2007

  • Trashing Jill Carroll

    US site Radar has an interesting opinion piece on Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor stringer who was taken hostage in Iraq. It’s by Tony Dokoupil. Although Carroll was only a stringer, the Monitor put her on staff whilst she was being held and campaigned hard for her release. When she got out they made…

  • Viacom vs YouTube…kicked off by the Beeb deal?

    Was the BBC deal with YouTube the straw that broke the camel’s back? Probably not, but if more corporations had followed the Beeb down the ad-share route it would have started to chip away at Viacom‘s position. If you read the full text of Viacom’s suit here, you can see the exact nature of their…

  • In the red corner, Viacom…

    The gloves come off in the content wars. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google Inc. and its Internet video sharing site YouTube over unauthorized use of its copyrighted entertainment. Book your seat ringside.

  • "Balancing" climate change 2

    Criticism of The Great Climate Change Swindle continues. George Monbiot keeps up the pressure in the Guardian today: Channel 4 has always had a problem with science. No one in its science unit appears to understand the difference between a peer-reviewed paper and a clipping from the Daily Mail. It keeps commissioning people whose claims…