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Ed Webb

Will Bunch: What Battered Newsrooms Can Learn From Stewart's CNBC Takedown - 0 views

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newspapers future journalism

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  • In a time when newspapers are flat-out dying if not dealing with bankruptcy or massive job losses, while other types of news orgs aren't faring much better, the journalistic success of a comedy show rant shouldn't be viewed as a stick in the eye -- but a teachable moment. Why be a curmudgeon about kids today getting all their news from a comedy show, when it's not really that hard to join Stewart in his own idol-smashing game?
  • People need information but what they so desperately want an outlet that shares their passion -- and, yes, that rage
  • Mainstream media, after all these years, has a hard time understanding that one of the major political forces in this country is mainstream media, something the audience knows all too well.
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  • there's nothing wrong with that, informing and entertaining at the same time -- isn't that what newspapers are charging people 75 cents for?.
  • Ed Webb on 06 Mar 09
     
    Excellently observed, and sound advice. Note that 'objectivity' is presented as false virtue.
Ed Webb

Custard Thrown On Mandelson, Business Secretary Hit In Face By Anti-Heathrow Striker's ... - 0 views

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activism environment UK custard mandelson

shared by Ed Webb on 06 Mar 09 - Cached
  • I don't want to get up early in the morning and throw custard at Peter Mandelson but I don't have a choice because democracy has failed us
  • Plane Stupid has launched a series of high profile stunts in recent years against the Government's environmental policies, including sit-in protests bringing Stansted and Aberdeen airports to a stand-still.
  • Ed Webb on 06 Mar 09
     
    How to create media spectacle to get attention to one's cause...
Ed Webb

DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age: Digital Anthropology - 0 views

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dancing ink anthropology graduate school UK digital

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  • Ed Webb on 05 Mar 09
     
    If you're fascinated by the material in this course, here's something to think about...
Ed Webb

Pressure grows on Obama to engage Iran directly | McClatchy Washington Bureau - 0 views

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mcclatchy Iran diplomacy USA

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • "Iran is important, Iran is dangerous, Iran is urgent, and we have no choice but to deal with Iran, despite the negatives," Frank G. Wisner II, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, told the committee. "In short, if we're to make any progress with the questions that we face in Iraq, Afghanistan, with the nuclear questions, energy issues, Israel-Palestine, we have to be able to take Iran into account and deal with it."
  • "To the extent that we are lessening Iran's commitment to nuclear weapons, then that reduces the pressure for, or the need for a missile defense system,"
  • "Regime change is a wish, not a strategy," Haass said. "We need to have a strategy."
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  • The Obama administration might make progress with Iran if it sidesteps Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and deals directly with the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Dealing with the cleric, however, won't be easy."After three decades of being immersed in a 'death to America' culture, it may not be possible for Khamenei to reinvent himself at age 69," Sadjadpour said. "But if there's one thing that is tried and true, it's that an engagement approach toward Iran that aims to ignore, bypass or undermine Khamenei is guaranteed to fail."
Ed Webb

Global Neighbourhoods: Egyptian Terror Spoofers Get Treated Like Terrorists. - 0 views

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Egypt rights activism

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • One woman activist posed with a description that she represented the "Military Wing of Photo Shop." Egyptian authorities, as usual, were not amused. "Dead" has been arrested. Facebook was also apparently unamused. Several of the groups satirical photos have been deleted.
  • But spoofing Islamic terrorists while residing in Egypt is ballsy to me and represents the free speech which is supposed to be a sacred right in democratic societies.
Michael Fisher

Disappointment at Sharm al-Sheikh | Marc Lynch - 0 views

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Marc Lynch Hillary Clinton Obama Administration Israel-Palestine Foreign Policy International Relations Israel Palestine

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  • Clinton prefers to double-down on the shopworn "West Bank first, Fatah only" policy which has been conspiciously failing for the last two years.  The concrete manifestation:  two-thirds of the U.S. contribution to the reconstruction of Gaza will go not to Gaza but to the West Bank.
  • This all seems stuck in a bit of time-warp.  It ignores the two year history of Israeli and Western failure under the identical discourse and policy to deliver meaningful benefits to the Palestinian Authority or the West Bank. It ignores the reality of Hamas power in Gaza, and the reality of Fatah's limited capabilities and legitimacy (which were not enhanced, shall we say, by Abbas's performance during the Gaza war).  And it ignores the promise of the dramatic moves towards Arab reconciliation and the accomplishment of a tentative Hamas-Fatah accord last week
  • Michael Fisher on 03 Mar 09
     
    Abu Aardvark (Marc Lynch) shows why Secretary of State Clinton's diplomacy will not change the situation in Israel/Palestine. He shows that not only is Israeli-Palestinian American policy important but also Hamas-Fatah policy.
Michael Fisher

Al Jazeera English - Americas - US to boycott UN racism conference - 0 views

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  • Michael Fisher on 03 Mar 09
     
    The United States, Canada and Israel will not send representatives to the United Nations racism conferene in Geneva. They say that the draft resolution was not acceptable.
Ed Webb

Egypt and beyond: Long live Palestine - and the Arab regimes - 0 views

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palestine rights reform gaza

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  • Arguably, coordinating with the regimes in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt is probably the only way to have such a caravan pass through the North African countries, and to ensure its entry into Gaza from Egypt. But if Galloway hadn't designed this campaign in order to ensure the maximum possible media attention for himself, he could have considered other ways to support Palestine - without becoming a propaganda tool for authoritarian regimes.
  • activists in Europe should work harder to find ways to support Palestine without alienating the oppresed opposition in Arab countries, as the struggle for a just solution in Palestine must be linked to the struggle for democratic reform and justice in the Middle East.
Ed Webb

The Oil Drum | Saudi Arabia's Crude Oil Production Peaked in 2005 - 0 views

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KSA oil future reserves peak

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  • In this time of economic crisis, it would appear appropriate for Saudi Arabia's oil fields to be publicly audited. The full disclosure of total remaining reserves, by field, would enable more effective future oil production and consumption planning in this post peak oil age.
  • Many readers will question the validity of my URR estimates, shown in Figure 1, thinking that the true KSA URR must be higher. A perceived high URR is in the national interest of KSA because it needs its customers to continue their demand for oil leading to sustainable high oil prices for KSA. If customers thought that KSA had less than 100 Gb of oil left then conservation and switching to alternatives would increase. KSA has been creating this perception of overabundant oil reserves for at least sixteen years because it believes that this will maximize the price of its remaining oil.
  • Ed Webb on 03 Mar 09
     
    Notice allegation of government of KSA manipulating perceptions of its reserves in order to maintain demand and high price.
Jared Bernhardt

FOXNews.com - Report: Snoop Dogg Joins Nation of Islam - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainme... - 0 views

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Snoop Dogg Nation of Islam Farrakhan

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  • Jared Bernhardt on 03 Mar 09
     
    I know this has ABSOLUTELY no relevance..but could the Nation of Islam be the next trend in Hollywood?
Zach Hartnett

Major controversy in Turkish parliament | Middle East | Jerusalem Post - 0 views

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  • The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the Turkish Parliament, Ahmet Turk, created a major controversy when, on Tuesday, he became only the second person in history to speak Kurdish in the Turkish parliament, causing the state-run TRT TV channel to stop its live feed of the session,
Ed Webb

2009 March Archive at 3arabawy - 0 views

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  • SS intimidation..
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      Ed Webb on 02 Mar 09
       
      SS = State Secuity
  • live-blogging today’s discussion, led by trade unionist Fatma Ramdan
  • police corruption
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  • increase in the fees of court procedures, which means people will not afford any more filing legal suits..
  • How can we build a media network to monitor strikes? The best solidarity we can give the labor movement is spread its news, and alert activists and journalists to what’s going on minute by minute. Jaiku is a good service for that.. Why don’t we launch a jaiku channel for labor news. We have to train fellow journalists and activists on how to use Jaiku and the internet tools to disseminate information quickly.. The State TV directors and presenters, because they read about the workers strikes, got inspired into action. This means we have to put more effort into spreading the word about the workers actions.
Ed Webb

Radio Reporter From the U.S. Is Held by Iran - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Iran rights oppression NPR reporters

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  • Iran has arrested an Iranian-American reporter who worked for National Public Radio and other news organizations out of Iran, her father told N.P.R. on Sunday.
  • “She said that she had bought a bottle of wine and the person that sold it had reported it and then they came and arrested her,” he said, adding that the wine purchase was just an excuse to arrest her.
  • The authorities also destroyed the place of worship of members of a Sufi group called the Gonabadi Dervishes on Feb. 19 in the central city of Isfahan.
Ed Webb

Despite Hopes of Hollywood Visit, Iran's Leaders Stick to the Same Script - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Iran film culture USA

shared by Ed Webb on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Both movies are despised here by vastly more people than have actually seen them.
  • Iranian religious rulers banned Western movies after the 1979 revolution, fearing that their cultural influence could undermine Iran’s revolutionary zeal.
  • But pirated copies are widely and secretly distributed for private use. And satellite television, which is illegal but has been common since the mid-1990s, has allowed Iranians to see pretty much anything they want.
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  • “Only one Iranian film has been nominated at the Academy Awards in the past 30 years, and we want to change that,”
Ed Webb

Diigo fever at 3arabawy - 0 views

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diigo Egypt activism blog

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  • Ed Webb on 01 Mar 09
     
    See how Egyptian activists are using Diigo
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