journalism
Jan 27 2011, View Point

American newspapers are in dire financial straits. With the advent of new media what does the future of journalism look like to you. Share your views.

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Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
The renown Afghan Journalist and host of political talk shows on Afghanistan’s popular TV Channel Tolo TV, Razzaq Maamoon was attacked near his home in Kabul. The...
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Almaha, Riyadh
The War You Don’t See is a must-see film by award-winning journalist and film maker John Pilger. In this film, John Pilger draws attention to the sad and shameful...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
It is no headline to say that America’s media takes its cues from the U.S. government on matter relating to foreign policy. Considering the way the press covers...
made popular Dec 13 2010
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
According to BBC news, “The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been refused bail by a court in London but vowed to fight...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The New York Times used to enforce the policy that no Jewish journalists, no matter what their actually beliefs on Zionism, could cover Israel. The Times’ fear an...
made popular Nov 26 2010
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Arun Singh, New Delhi
The play titled Misery of Media was going on. Anarkali was dancing in the court of Zille-ilaahi. The Zille-ilaahi was relishing every sensual step and leers of the...
made popular Nov 19 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Why I hate the New York Times. The nearly bankrupt paper no longer even bothers with journalistic standards when it comes to Israel and Arabs/Muslims. The pro-Zionist...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Instead of reporting on crooked public officials or the growth of organized crime, newspaper editor Martha Lopez runs press releases from the Zeta cartel. It’s...
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By Prabhat Sharan The Verdict Weekly Greed for profits the sole motive of Indian press barons: Thus, it was not surprising that the media world a couple of years back...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The above title is from a blog post. It is one of the most sufficient and insightful writings I have ever read about why we even have a so-called ‘War on...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
American standards of evaluation. The American government has only one method of evaluation human rights violations: is the government in question pro or...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The trash of Fox News: Spewing hate and ignorance wrapped in snappy language and graphics to the lowest common denominator. Can we stop pretending that this is a real...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
It was by turns defiant and deferential, part plea and part plaint, a message as much to the drug gangs with a firm grip on Ciudad Juárez, the bloodiest city in...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
CNN’s Octavia Nasr - who has been with the network over 20years and served as its Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs - was recently fired for Twitter comments...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I recently wrote that one of the reasons the British national football (or soccer) team often under-performs is that they are under too much pressure to succeed. That...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I have long admired Lara Logan of CBS News. I have considered her quite a thoughtful and critical reporter in the past. And I credited that due to the fact that she was...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Jerusalem Post used to be a reliable English-language Israeli daily. The Post was professional and committed to critical news coverage. And because it reported on...
made popular Jun 28 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In a new book by former Wall Street Journal Mideast bureau chief Hugh Pope, he laments the parameters of the U.S. press establishment. In “Dining with...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Glenn Greenwald has an excellent blog spot on the decadence of American’s Washington “journalists” and compares them to Royal Court spokespersons....
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Helen Thomas with President Kennedy. Veteran journalist Helen Thomas started covering the White House during the Kennedy administration and now reigns as the doyen of...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Give it up once more for the old badass holding it down for decades now: Helen Thomas. Unlike the other poseurs and phonies in the White House press corps whom all...
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Usman Zafar, Islamabad
Talat Hussain, the host of “Live with Talat”, and Executive Director news and current affairs of Aaj News, has finally returned home to the joy of an...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Americans have two misconceptions of al Jazeera: Either they dismiss it as a fanatical, anti-American channel which exists to promote Bin Ladin or they believe it is...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Newsweek - an American weekly published over seven decades - is being sold by its parent company The Washington Post. The news magazine has lost tens of millions over...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The bias of the U.S. media in their love affair with Israel and Zionism is as such that they even ignore facts when it comes to Israel. There is bias which is very...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Look at him. Isn’t he not inspiring? One of the most remarkable, in a horrific sense, things about the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia is its zero tolerance...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Being a member of the Instablogs community, and one of the most prolific writers, I consider it a duty to shine a light on violations of freedom of the press. I do...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Graffiti in Israel: Where are you Anat Kam? Source: Max Blumenthal. The Israeli government is prosecuting or attempting to prosecute a former Israel Defense Forces...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
In the 1967 Six-Day War, the state of Israel launched what it termed to be a preemptive strike against a forthcoming Egyptian-Syrian assault. This is the Zionist...
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John, Kampala
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), calls on the country’s government to adopt laws protecting journalists and their sources. It will be filed with the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Lebanese government has asked the United States to uplift a domestic ban on a television network owned by the Lebanese party-cum-militia Hezbollah (Party of God),...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
What a big surprise, fanatical Zionist and New York Times bureau chief Ethan Bronner in Israeli occupied Jerusalem has a son in the Israeli terrorist army - the Israeli...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Tunisian lawyer and Tunisian League Human Rights President Mokhtar Trifi (L) shows a censured book entitled “Et Maintenant Tu vas m’ entendre” by...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
What a big surprise, fanatical Zionist and New York Times bureau chief Ethan Bronner in Israeli occupied Jerusalem has a son in the Israeli terrorist army - the Israeli...
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Robb, Derby
Two weeks ago I wrote an editorial for this page headed “Murder Accused On Media Council” and I see that the very individual referred to has reacted angrily...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The King of Jordan is in the center - Look at this idiot! The buffoon has never served a day in the military, not even a ceremonial position; but he often insists on...
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Ankur Mittal, mumbai
Among the multiple roles played by media, the most important one is to enable readers make intelligent choices. It should act on truth because it stands on the side of...
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In this April 7, 2007 file photo, Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., holds up a previously won Pulitzer Prize medallion. Downie Jr. has accepted a teaching position at Arizona State University’s journalism school, the school announced...