My following article appears today in Online Opinion: As a journalist who spends the vast majority of my life online, the seemingly never-ending debates about the future of the media and newspapers can be exhausting and predictable. The same mantras are heard over and over again. Where will the news come from when newsprint dies?…
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Listen to the people, finally
Like so many issues, the American public is far ahead of the vast majority of the political and media elite (despite Obama’s recent, tentative overtures towards Cuba): A majority of Americans feel that it is time to try a new approach to Cuba, according to a national poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org. More specifically, the public favors…
Letting the air into a stale relationship
I discovered in Cuba a few years ago while researching my book The Blogging Revolution that the US-imposed sanctions were achieving nothing other than hatred of the US and its leaders. Obama’s latest tentative moves should be applauded, but he has a long way to go to treat the Communist nation with the respect it…
Talking Palestine in Ubud
I’m currently in Ubud, Bali after being invited by the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival to conduct an event tonight. The following article appears in the current edition of the local paper, The Bali Advertiser: 2009 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival presents Antony Loewenstein author of “My Israel Question” and “The Blogging Revolution” Just as…
Who is the real Fidel?
The legacy of Cuban President Fidel Castro is mixed; a revolutionary, dictator, human rights abuser, inspiration to millions and mystery.
The net effect
The following essay about the web and my book The Blogging Revolution, by Richard King, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 3: Good, bad or a bit of both? Richard King asks whether the internet serves us, or we serve it. Perhaps new technologies meet with suspicion because of the perception they extend…
Castro can’t stand in the way
50 years after the Cuban Revolution, repression remains rife on the island. A growing number of bloggers are fighting back, however, and daring to speak out.
Learning from the Chinese?
Cuba’s regime still refuses to understand that censoring the internet and bloggers just makes it look petty and dictatorial. After all, the days of the “revolution” are coming to an end.
The Blogging Revolution: a look at the repression of online journalism around the world
Democracy Now! is the world’s finest independent news service, based in New York and known for its fearless investigations of the major issues of the day (and many ignored by the corporate media.) I was interviewed live on their TV/radio program in the studio this morning about my book, The Blogging Revolution: JUAN GONZALEZ: A…