The democratisation of media continues apace: Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers. Yet fewer than 10% of those submissions have appeared on CNN.com or the cable channel. That’s all about to…
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Talking to our “enemy”
Despite the seemingly never-ending rhetoric between Israel and Iran, bloggers in both countries are starting to communicate with each other. The internet is breaking down the barriers that politicians and commentators are so keen to erect.
The real “surge”
Akram Naji, a lawyer in Baghdad: “Americans are still supporting Iranian influence in Iraq by cleansing Baghdad and surroundings of Sunnis.”
Dr Strangelove enters the election campaign
Welcome to the (likely) Republican presidential nominee, John McCain (more wars, please):
The narrowing circle
Yet another example of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad taking his country in the wrong direction: Iran’s most important women’s magazine, Zanan, (Women) has been forced to close after 16 years of publication, after being accused of painting a “dark picture” of Iran. Zanan’s founder Shahla Sherkat is considered a prime example of Islamic Iranian feminism. She…
Irans turns a corner
George Bush, in his annual state of the union address, highlighted so-called Iranian-backed extremism in the Middle East. The reality in Iran, however, is rarely examined by the mainstream media. Noted Iranian writer Nasrin Alavi, now based in London, argues that Ahmadinejad’s regime is decreasing in popularity due to its economic failures and overblown rhetoric:…
Karzai’s fundamentalist regime, courtesy of us
The case of the Afghani journalist sentenced to death for allegedly downloading a suspect article online is far more complex than we are being told, writes Afghan blogger Sanjar: This is a power game, Karzai government has been critical of media for awhile, this incident allowed the religious scholar to rampage a journalist. In big…
Who can we bomb next?
The Seattle-Post Intelligencer editorial board issues a call to arms: With the clock ticking on our “commitments” in Iraq — the international mandate expires in less than a year — the Bush administration is left in an interesting position. It could create a plan for a troop withdrawal; instead, the plan being negotiated with the…