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Protecting the police from inquiries
Journalistic scrutiny of the UK police (and the armed forces and intelligence services, btw) is about to be severely restricted thanks to the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
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Unrequired Reading {18.10.08 to 19.10.08}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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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.’