Media usage may be fragmenting but traditional mediums remain (far too) powerful: Americans — including “young people” — still get their political news from TV, according to a new study published by TV trade pub Broadcasting & Cable, and conducted by market-research firm Crawford, Johnson & Northcott, whose clients include… several TV stations. According to…
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China, 2008
Mr. X, Far Eastern Economic Review, May: Ultimately, to succeed in China, businesses must assume the goals of the Communist Party as their own. One of the first steps into the market for a major multinational is to hire a government-relations director who will interpret China’s policies and articulate the company’s fealty to those policies…
Don’t meet/speak/hang out with dissident Jews
The following article, headlined, “Uni students face heat over Loewenstein debate”, appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News: A decision by Jewish university students to invite outspoken Israel critic Antony Loewenstein held at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has angered some community members. Hillel director Gary Samowitz, 25, said he organised the April…
How much guilt can one country handle?
Clive Stafford Smith, attorney, Democracy Now!: …According to the most recent official figures, the United States is currently holding 27,000 secret prisoners around the world…
Kiddies behind bars
America, home of the illegally incarcerated (and something noble to export to the world): The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. A total of 2,500 youths under the…
The small details matter
The wonders of Twitter (a technology that I’ve generally thought of as fairly irrelevant to the pursuit of journalism.) Jeff Jarvis explains why I may be wrong: We online citizens are living in public, revealing small details of our lives with our updates and our content. It’s in the smallness of this personal news that…
The personal cost of our war
The endless violence in Iraq continues. One recent victim was Iraqi blogger Ahmed from BlogIraq. His friend Abu Aya writes: Yes. Ahmed (BlogIraq) is dead. He was killed in Baghdad on April 11th, 2008. He went back to Baghdad to take his family out, but he did not have enough time to do so. He…
How to run a country
Why democracy doesn’t matter when poor, African states have boundless amounts of black gold.
What comes next?
Is it really the job of a corporate to ban material on the internet? Qantas has defended the adequacy of its internet filters after a man accessed child pornography in its Melbourne Airport lounge. Mark Stephen Heers, 45, of St Leonards, NSW, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday to three counts of…