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Tom Trewinnard

ElBaradei attacked in Egypt's state-run media - 0 views

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Egypt media state ElBaradei presdency elections Mubarak

shared by Tom Trewinnard on 08 Dec 09 - Snapshot
  • Tom Trewinnard
    Tom Trewinnard on 08 Dec 09
     
    Here's a Meedan event I've been working on for a little while tracking the ongoing media campaign both for and against ElBaradei to stand in the next Egyptian presidential elections (for my money he's not made up his mind yet). Really fascinating to see how both the pro and anti-government media have rallied round/against him. Please add any interesting links from at home and abroad!
Amira AlTahawi

MEMRI:Iran, Saudi Arabia Face Off in the Media - 0 views

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media watchdog Iran KSA

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 17 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 17 Oct 09
     
    "Beginning in mid-2009, the Iranian and Saudi media have been regularly exchanging accusations on a number of points of conflict: the escalation between the Yemen army and the Houthi rebels, [1] the intensified attacks in Iraq, Iran's involvement in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and Iran's nuclear program. "
Amira AlTahawi

كشف Kashf: "لا توجد فئة في مصر أكثر اجراما من البدو والاعراب"... - 0 views

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media watchdog egypt sinai Amira.Altahawi

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 16 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 16 Oct 09
     
    "هذه الإساءة أعلاه ليست نتيجة بحث علمي أو دراسة* ولا هي عنوانا اخترته بالطبع، بل ما جاء في مقدمة ملف العدد الأسبوعي من جريدة نهضة مصر- الخميس 15 اكتوبرالجاري، التعميم والإهانة تملأ الملف الذي جاء بعنوان "وقيدت الجريمة .. ضد بدوي!"؛ إذ تقول الجريدة:"
Ed Webb

KSMU - Islam in the Ozarks: Wearing the Headscarf in Missouri - 0 views

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Islam Muslims Missouri USA media veil

shared by Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09
     
    Note the other reports in this series about Friday prayer, Ramadan etc.
Ed Webb

Europe's first 'personalised paper' | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,25197,26207945-12377,00.html

media newspapers future journalism paper Germany startups

shared by Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • they said that young people are tired of trawling the Internet for news and would pay for the personalised, tailored service that niiu would offer
  • people prefer to read from paper
  • very targeted advertising
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  • Eventually, clients will also be able to choose the length of the paper delivered - for example, eight pages on a busy Monday but 60 pages on a Friday when there is more time to read.
    Initially, the paper will be 16 pages.
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 15 Oct 09
     
    Is this how newspapers can survive? By copying an RSS reader, but in print form?
Amira AlTahawi

Middle East Bloggers: The Street Leads Online - Reports - Committee to Protect Journalists - 0 views

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media Blogs bloggers freedoms journalists egypt arabmedia

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 14 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 14 Oct 09
     
    "Middle East Bloggers: The Street Leads Online
    In the Middle East and North Africa, where political change occurs slowly, blogging has becomes a serious medium for social and political commentary as well as a target of government suppression. By Mohamed Abdel Dayem"
Amira AlTahawi

رئيس جمعية المراسلين الأجانب بالقاهرة: هذه أسباب رفضى قيد الملحقة الثقافية الإسرا... - 0 views

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MEDIA Egypt watchdog

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    Amira AlTahawi on 12 Oct 09
     
    حوار مع فولكهارد ويدنفور؛ أقدم مراسل أجنبى فى مصر رئيس جمعية المراسلين الأجانب بالقاهرة: أسئلة عادية وإجابات جيدة
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Al-Qaeda-link' Cern worker held - 0 views

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alarmism terrorism al-qaida CERN France Algeria media BBC

shared by Ed Webb on 09 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Police believe they had been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and had been planning attacks in France.
  • the researcher, whom it did not identify, was working for an outside institute and had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism.
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 09 Oct 09
     
    Terrible reporting - sensationalist emphasis on 'sexy' elements, such as CERN connection and internt, whereas this seems very routine.
gweyman

As-Safir Newspaper - مايسة عواد : «العالم» في مواجهة «العربية».. بل قل هو «كباش» ... - 0 views

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saudi_arabia arabiya media television iran السعودية

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    gweyman on 08 Oct 09
     
    Interesting piece on Saudi media influence
Ed Webb

Kuwait to tighten media law after TV station closure - Media & Marketing - ArabianBusiness.... - 0 views

www.arabianbusiness.com/-on-tv-station-closure---paper

Kuwait Yemen sectarianism media censorship TV

shared by Ed Webb on 08 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Kuwait’s Ministry of Information is studying an amendment to the nation’s media law that would penalise content that could prompt sectarian strife
Amira AlTahawi

تايم تورك: أخبار تركيا والعالم - 0 views

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turkey MEDIA Internet website

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 04 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 04 Oct 09
     
    Turkey in Arabic
Amira AlTahawi

Book review: People Like Us - Misrepresenting the Middle East - 0 views

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MEDIA book arabs journalists

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  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 01 Oct 09
     
    "Book review: People Like Us - Misrepresenting the Middle East"
Amira AlTahawi

BBC forces Labour to rethink BNP ban | Politics | The Observer - 0 views

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bbc Media tv UK

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  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 01 Oct 09
     
    The BBC has forced the Labour party to review its policy of not sharing the same platform as rightwing extremists by inviting the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, to appear on Question Time.
Amira AlTahawi

شبكة الصحفيين العرب - 0 views

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watchdog Egypt Media journalists newspapers

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  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 01 Oct 09
     
    مصر
Amira AlTahawi

إذاعة "لورا".. 25 عاماً في خِـدمة المهاجرين إلى سويسرا - swissinfo... - 0 views

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refugees AsylumSeeker radio Media

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 01 Oct 09 - No snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 01 Oct 09
     
    أقدم الإذاعات المَحلية المستقلة في سويسرا - إذاعة "لورا" LoRa
Ed Webb

Common Knowledge : CJR - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 21 Sep 09 - No snapshot
  • Berelson’s analysis documented what we denizens of the burgeoning ecosystem often shorthanded as “the new media landscape” understand instinctively: that news is much more than information. That it is more, even, than a cultural commodity. Berelson highlighted news’s status as a source both of intimacy and anxiety: news is not only a reflection of the world we live in. It is also a reflection of ourselves.
  • Aren’t consumers better served by many outlets that are specialized than by a few outlets that are generalized? And national news, even in its halcyon days—one thinks of Walter Cronkite, the “most trusted man in America”—was never a paragon of cultural comprehensiveness. Master narratives, the closest we’ve ever gotten to macro-communal news, have been, as well, products of oligarchic exclusivity.
  • consumers are increasingly presented with, and made to choose among, an expanding variety of ever-narrowing news sources
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  • the inconvenience of being challenged in our beliefs.
  • Increasingly, we are able to choose not just which opinions to embrace, but also something more foundational: which facts to know in the first place.
  • a troubling paradox: the democratization of information, it turns out, is in some ways at odds with democracy itself.
  • Where is the middle ground between monopoly and chaos? How do we balance the individually empowering elements of the niche—and the passion and participation they encourage—with news that is empowering in a wider sense of civic life? How do we reconcile the intimacy of news consumption with Berelson’s insight that news is, at is core, a solidarity good? How do we structure a system of news that acts, in varying ways, as democracy’s common denominator?
  • news consumption itself has taken on a quality of itinerancy: audiences, per Pew’s most recent State of the News Media report, now “hunt and gather what they want when they want it, use search to comb among destinations and share what they find through a growing network of social media.” And consumption itself has thus taken on an increasingly self-definitional property: to read The New York Times, or to watch Fox News—or MSNBC—or the NewsHour—or to curate a personalized RSS feed, is, of course, to make not merely a commercial decision. It is also to make a declaration about who you are and how you see the world.
  • There has always been more information in the world than there have been news outlets to convey it; but the explosion of outlets, in particular, means that no longer is slant the key self-definitional distinction in news
  • “The news” itself, as a unitary entity, is no longer something we can take for granted. On the contrary: it is increasingly incoherent—“a mass of niches,” Jeff Jarvis has it. Indeed, the notion of a master narrative itself—the communal melody that, even in its exclusivity, also binds us together in its tunes and tones—is slowly dissolving into white noise.
  • echo chambers—even those that many might think of as ‘the good ones’—have an insularity that impedes broader political and cultural discourse. They distort reality through their very presumption of multiple realities. They assume—and, then, foster—a disconnect between sub-truths and, simply, truth.
  • In And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, Bill Wasik describes the “feedback loop among bloggers and readers,” citing a study finding that 85 percent of blog links led consumers to blogs of the same political bent—“with almost no blog showing any particular respect for any blog on the other side.” In this way, selective exposure becomes a communal activity.
  • “The problem is when extremism emerges from the logic of social interactions”—from, in other words, a system of discourse that allows for self-segregation. And that’s the problem we’re seeing, increasingly, in our journalistic infrastructure. On the one hand, people have access to more dissenting views than ever before; on the other, paradoxically, they are more able to ignore those views than ever before. My reality here. Your reality there.
  • Without “popular information,” we lose not only our baseline of knowledge about the political world, but also our bearings within it. We risk becoming subject, as it were, to subjectivity itself—and ending up with a society, as William James had it, in which “people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
  • That journalism is crucial to modern democracy seems clear; that it is not by any means sufficient to democracy seems equally clear
  • News serves the public not only by feeding it information; it also fosters, in the phrase of the sociologist C. Wright Mills, the “sociological imagination”—the habit of mind required to connect one’s private concerns to the “public issues” that give rise to them. News itself is thus a self-fulfilling prophecy. In learning about our fellow citizens, we come to see their lives as they are: inextricably linked to ours. News begets empathy—and, in that, social capital. Connection is key: as Robert Putnam notes, “a society of many virtuous but isolated individuals is not necessarily rich in social capital.”
  • Mediated knowledge, in other words, united the country. Not by whitewashing differences among its consumers, but rather by giving those consumers a baseline of shared information and discourse that, eventually, transformed an awkward amalgam of loosely connected states—the experiment—into the United States. The nation.
  • The challenge, as we navigate the chasm between old ways and new, is to find a way to mingle the productive properties of commotion with the enduring value of community.
  • “It is hardly possible,” Mill had it, “to overstate the value in the present state of human improvement of placing people in contact with others dissimilar to themselves, and in contact too with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar.”
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 21 Sep 09
     
    Essential reading on media, identity, democracy, community.
Ed Webb

Mohammad Khatami, a Former President, Criticizes Iran's Government - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Iran election Gramsci ideology media

shared by Ed Webb on 07 Sep 09 - Snapshot

  • opposition leaders — much like their hard-line foes — are girding supporters for a long-term battle to be waged as much through ideas and quiet social organizing as through the public protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election on June 12.

    Both Mr. Khatami and members of the group he addressed, the Islamic Society of University Professors, expressed deep concerns about threats to academic freedom in the coming school year. On Saturday, after days of calls by conservatives to purge Iran’s universities of professors and curriculums deemed “un-Islamic,” the government announced the start of a high-level investigation on how the humanities are taught.

  • a “soft war” against internal enemies. Anyone in the field of culture must now recognize important distinctions between “friends and enemies,” “attack and defense” and “explanation and propaganda,”
  • He warned that the West, with its sophisticated media outlets, is better equipped for soft war than Iran.
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  • like his conservative counterparts, Mr. Moussavi also spoke of the need to deepen his movement with a “social approach, not only a political approach.” And he suggested that the opposition movement, despite its apparent weakness in the face of arrests, trials and intimidation, had won substantial moral victories.

    “Despite the regretful, bitter developments of recent days,” Mr. Moussavi wrote, “people now have timeless convictions that are miles more important than the election of one man.”

Amira AlTahawi

تقرير الممارسة الصحفية ينتقد نشر الصور العارية والفضائح الجنسية - بوابة الشروق... - 0 views

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watchdog Media Egypt newspapers

shared by Amira AlTahawi on 06 Sep 09 - No snapshot
  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 06 Sep 09
     
    أورد تقرير مؤشرات الممارسة الصحفية، مارس يونيو 2009، الصادر من المجلس الأعلى للصحافة عددا من الملاحظات المأخوذة على بعض الصحف فى تجاوز التقاليد الأخلاقية والمهنية لنشر الصورة وكتابة الخبر، وعدم مراعاة ميثاق الشرف الصحفى.
Amira AlTahawi

خالد السرجاني- الدستور- عن ثقافة القطيع - 0 views

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watchdog Media Egypt

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  • Amira AlTahawi
    Amira AlTahawi on 02 Sep 09
     
    غربلة تيار التنوير من الزوائد غير المفيدة
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