Category: Media and Journalism

Just gonna quickly link to important stories I read yesterday: John Peacock – Why alJazeera were right to show those pictures.

There appears to have been some liberal quoting going on, early in the story of missing journalist Terry Llyod and his news team. One cameraman escaped to safety – but there are conflicting reports on what happened. Sky News tells the story here. What Daniel Demoustier is saying is that they came under fire from…

Antonia Zerbisias gives a good account of many of the stories that have not made it to the mainstream US media. Well worth a look. Meg also links to it.

Fergal Keane of the BBC writes this thoughtful article in the Indepedent. He does’t mention the war poetry and stories from Greek and Roman history. Greek history is littered with some excellent accounts of the trauma of war. Interesting comparison could be drawn between the experiences soldiers of the First World War had, and Greek…

Just having a look over at Dan Gillmor’s e-Journal, he has an interesting story taken from the American Prospect. When the Observer story broke last week about US spying in the UN security council, the US media failed to mention it. Dan is not impressed. As Dan says: But what’s instructive about this episode is…

Robert Fisk has an article this week on the editorial process now being used within CNN. The new process is startling. Indeed, reading a new CNN document, “Reminder of Script Approval Policy”, fairly takes the breath away. “All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval,” it says. “Packages may not be edited…

Paul Krugman writes a of media between the US and Europe. Karlin linked to this story last week, as she seen it in the NY Times. Nevertheless it is definately worth looking at how CNN/FOX/ABC reported on the recent protests around the world. He argues that US media has taken it as their patriotic duty…

The well-known anti-globalisation activist Naomi Klein writes about Hugo Chavez and the situation in Venezuela. As always Klein’s reading of the situation is second-to-none. Brilliant media piece.

Lee Dembart poses the questions surrounding ‘fair use’ of media, and the industries attempts to stop the downloading and free distribution of large amounts of music and films. He fails to mention the industries attempts to poison networks such as Kazaa with bogus files – but otherwise it sums up the issue well.