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Al Jazeera English – the mouth of the south?
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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Organise your audience
This post is part of the Carnival of Journalism. Latin victims amongst you will recognise that the carnival’s root, carne vale, translates as ‘meat, farewell.’
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Brit TV journo blogging the presidential election
For those not familiar with it, Britain’s Channel 4 News is probably what the Guardian would look like on television. A very smart former Fulbrighter at Harvard KSG, Felicity Spector will be producing their road coverage of the US Presidential election. She’s an old chum and is blogging here. Worth checking out.
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I was Andy Lack’s liberal media censor
How do liberals conspire to keep dissenting voices off mainstream media? Back in the early 90s, I ran into new Bloomberg hire Andy Lack. He was making Year of the Generals, a documentary about WW2 for CBS. He was in the London bureau working late, as was I, and we struck up a conversation about…