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Reporting from Zimbabwe: Al Jaz vs. AP
Meanwhile, over at the Associated Press: The government commandeered buses and state railroad cars to carry President Robert Mugabe’s supporters from across the country for a march and rally near Harare Friday. The rally was a show of strength for Mugabe before a party meeting next month at which his continued leadership was likely to…
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An anarchist on the media…
Debates over the media have the habit of sounding awfully familiar. At the same time, old forgotten arguments shine a light on things we have stopped worrying about, mostly through familiarity rather than any more compelling reasons. One of the most enjoyable early critics of the media was Victor S. Yarros (1865-1956), a journalist and…
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Rupert Murdoch: leftist
Accuracy in Media, a website devoted to correcting media bias, doesn’t just reserve its ire for liberal outlets. Rupert Murdoch gets it in the neck too, for endorsing new Australian PM Kevin Rudd: One Australian observer of Murdoch told AIM that “Murdoch’s helping of leftist candidates is no surprise to longtime readers of The Australian.”…
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Old ideas on newspaper ownership…
With US media regulator the FCC looking at relaxing cross-media ownership rules, and all the recent excitement in the US over newspaper ownership , it is worth recalling a different and rather quaint proposal, from way back when: The basic material conditions of contemporary journalism are fatally unsound. Journalism that is too “cheap” to be…