It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. An internet cafe in Tehran. A storm of protest hit Google last […]
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It was an audacious plan that seemed doomed to fail: In late 2006 Al Jazeera, the upstart Arabic news network twice bombed by the US military, launched an English-language channel in a bold play at taking on the biggest names in international news and beating them at their own game. […]
[ I love the love-fest going on over RT – in the comments section on the youtube page for this clip . ABCBBCMSNBCCBSCNNFOX have let us down too badly for too long by jumping on the post 911, nationalistic, flag in corner screen, fear-pumped, ratings driven, ad-revenue-grabbing, Bush II stenography […]
So the latest magazine and newspaper readership and circulation figures are out and most publications’ numbers are down. Quelle surprise! And with a recession on, too — go figure. Let’s put the bloodbath into some sort of context. Based on ABC circulation figures, here’s how our biggest-circulating newspapers fared (Audited […]
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[ … that old chestnut ] Malcolm Evans was pushed out of his position as Cartoonist for the New Zealand Herald following complaints of ‘Anti Semitism’. He was twice voted cartoonist of the year 1999 and in 2003. Malcolm was also President of the NZCIA – cartoonists and illustrators association […]
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