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Media & Foreign Affairs

Jan 1, 2010: The Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review
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David Judson, editor-in-chief of the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review, a 48-year old Turkish newspaper, said “the indelible memories of the year [2009] will be of the 50 or so remarkable young journalists who come to work each day...

May 17, 2009: The British Foreign Secretary’s May 13 Session With U.S. Bloggers
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Adele Stan, a columnist for The American Prospect Online, had a May 13, 2009, column at the Guardian’s informative Comment is Free America blog headlined “David Miliband meets the bloggers.” “It was billed as a newfangled sort of event: a...

Jan 13, 2009: Gaza Bloggers Do What Journalists Can’t
Comments: 0 | Categories: Israel & Palestine , Media & Foreign Affairs
“The Israeli offensive in Gaza reached its 18th day with Israel continuing to block access to the region for foreign journalists,” reports The Christian Science Monitor’s Kristen Chick in a January 13, 2009, report headlined “Gaza bloggers relay crisis to...

Sep 11, 2005: Looking at Fox News in a Different Light
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Reading Washingtonian Online media columnist Harry Jaffe's September 9, 2005 column headlined "Fox News: Telling It Like It Is in New Orleans" has made me look at Fox News in a different light, especially reporter Shepard Smith, a Mississippi native....

Sep 10, 2005: U.S. Won't Prevent Coverage of Recovery of the Dead in New Orleans
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Thanks to CNN's legal challenge to Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore September 9, 2005 announcement that the press would not be allowed to cover the recovery of the dead in New Orleans, Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to...

Sep 9, 2005: After Katrina, Will Media Return to Status Quo
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Jay Rosen at PressThink has a provocative post and a good roundup of opinion in response to a question raised September 5, 2005 by Matt Wells of the BBC. That question was: "Has Katrina saved US media?" Rosen's answer: Spine...

Aug 28, 2005: Defending The Mainstream Media
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Jeff Alworth at BlueOregon posted a sensible article August 27 headlined "The Mainstream Media: A Defense." It was prompted by an article "in this week's New Yorker (no link available for the article) that "reminds me how much we all...

May 8, 2005: Media Matters: What is Media Coverage of Iraq War Good For?
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Media Matters wants to know, "What is media coverage of Iraq war good for? Absolutely nothing," it concludes. It's good for something. It helped the Bush Administration pull the wool over Americans' eyes about the war. Some publications and media...

Feb 2, 2005: Glaser: 'Newspaper Archives Not Ready for Open Web...Yet'
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Mark Glaser, in a February 1, 2005 post at the Online Journalism Review, asks: Wouldn't it be great if Google searches brought up every past newspaper article?" Yes, it would, Mark. "But," he added, "publishers aren't interested in opening up...

Jan 26, 2005: Gillmor Predicts Newspapers Will Eventually Open Archives to the Public
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I concur with Dan Gillmor's prediction that, "One of these days, a newspaper currently charging a premium for access to its article archives will do something bold: It will open the archives to the public -- free of charge but...