Online Journalism Blog is one of the world’s leading spaces for discussing new media and citizen journalism. One of its key players, Paul Bradshaw, who lectures in the UK, has written the following piece about my book, The Blogging Revolution: From the Baghdad Blogger to Twittering the Chinese Earthquake, plenty has been written about the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald on The Blogging Revolution
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution in the Sydney Morning Herald, by Stephen Hutcheon, was published on 1 November: In his first book, My Israel Question, Sydney author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein grapple-tackled his way through the minefields of Zionism and the Jewish diaspora. In his second, The Blogging Revolution, he parachutes…
Never. Believe. Washington.
What happened to Iran being the centre of world terror? Several American media outlets reported on Saturday that President George Bush is likely to announce after next month’s presidential elections that he intends to restore the diplomatic relations with Iran, almost 30 years after they were suspended.
The blogging revolution that’s changing the world
The following feature, by Pam Walker, appeared in the Hub newspaper on October 13: Few would now deny the growing power of the internet and its appeal to younger readers who are turning their backs on mainstream media in favour of online content, especially blogs. Antony Loewenstein, Australian journalist and author of My Israel Question,…
Sydney launch of The Blogging Revolution
The Blogging Revolution launched in Sydney in late September at leading independent bookshop Gleebooks. It was recorded and screened on ABC2 and is now available online below. I was in conversation with leading media commentator Kate Crawford:
Have blog, will rebel
The following news story and interview, by Rob Bates (photo by Alan Place), appears in this week’s Wentworth Courier newspaper: Controversial author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein will host an event at Paddington’s Fringe Bar to discuss internet censorship and the brave few who rise against it. Loewenstein’s first book, My Israel Question, received mixed…
Time Out Sydney on blogging
My following article is published in this week’s Time Out Sydney magazine: In the years after September 11, 2001, I was constantly frustrated by the failure of the Western media to examine the real reasons behind the attacks. It was as if only a Western journalist’s filter was allowed to see the post 9/11 world.…
Political vaudeville
My latest New Matilda column is about the forthcoming US election: Vacuous coverage of the US election has only skimmed the surface of the economic and foreign policy challenges facing the next President, argues Antony Loewenstein Mainstream media debate over the forthcoming US election has been fixated on the trivial rather than the substantive. Foreign…
Less evil than first thought
The reality: Even if Iran were to withdraw from the non-proliferation treaty today, the likelihood of the Islamic Republic assembling even a single nuclear weapon in the near future is low, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said on Monday. “They do not have even the nuclear material, the raw unenriched uranium…