Media
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News Corp Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Murdoch agrees to face MPs:The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at 17:43 Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have agreed to appear before MPs next week to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal, it was revealed tonigh” Continue reading
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The end of Murdoch media?
Yesterday Murdoch pulled a last minute manoeuvre to exclude his company’s outrageous hacking practices from the BSKyB deal review. Let’s call on the government to immediately rule that the Murdochs aren’t fit and proper to own half our commercial media. Tomorrow this will be debated in Parliament. Let’s beat the Murdoch mafia – sign the… Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch's U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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Could Hack Scandal Spell Trouble for Murdoch’s U.S. TV Licenses? By Peter Hart
On ABC’s This Week panel there was some talk of Rupert Murdoch losing his U.S. television licenses over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. There is a ‘character clause’ for broadcast licensees, and the current scandal would go a long way towards demonstrating a certain type of bad behavior. Continue reading
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Disregard the Blairite undead
It is difficult to imagine either of Ed Miliband’s predecessors as Labour leader deciding to force a parliamentary vote to delay consideration of Rupert Murdoch’s swallowing up of BSkyB until criminal investigations into the News of the World are complete. Continue reading
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The Limits of Acceptable Controversy By Dan Hind
The British media in their current form can neither regulate themselves or report adequately on their own activities. These failures must be added to their demonstrable inability to describe the broad outlines of the economic system in the run-up to the crisis of 2007-8, and their failure to expose the government’s manipulations and deceits in… Continue reading
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Journalism as a Weapon of War in Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The truth has been turned on its head in Libya. NATO and the Libyan government are saying contradictory things. NATO says that the Libyan regime will fall in a matter of days, while the Libyan government says that the fighting in Misrata will end in about two weeks. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 29 June 2011
29 June 2011 — williambowles.info 29 June 2011 SCF: France armed Libyan rebels – official Mathaba: China: All Freedom-Loving People Must Condemn NATO Action In Libya Morning Star: Senate rules out troops on ground Morning Star: We need to start fighting British terror Dissident Voice: Mugged then Shot Dissident Voice: How Should Americans Respond to… Continue reading
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Patrick Cockburn: Don’t believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi
Ever since the Libyan uprising started on 15 February, the foreign media have regurgitated stories of atrocities carried out by Gaddafi’s forces. It is now becoming clear that reputable human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been unable to find evidence for the worst of these. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 26-27 June 2011
27 June 2011 17:48:59 — williambowles.info 27 June 2011 Mathaba: Libya: An Uncertain Future: “Libya: An Uncertain Future Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Today at 17:00 Libya: An Uncertain Future Report of a Fact Finding Mission to assess both sides of the Libyan conflict more… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 24-25 June 2011
25 June 2011 — williambowles.info 25 June 2011 SCF: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV Mathaba: The Libyan Crisis: Italy Humiliates NATO Global Research: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV williambowles.info: Graphic Video of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier By Susan Lindauer SCF: House Votes Not to… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 23-24 June 2011
24 June 2011 — williambowles.info 24 June 2011 BBC: Libya rebels in ‘Tripoli talks’ Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 24, 2011 BBC: Libya conflict RT: ‘NATO will have done a good thing in Libya’ – diplomat 23 June 2011 Global Research: Libya: The Latest Product in Canada’s Ugly War Assembly Line SCF:… Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Defining ‘Withdrawal’ From Afghanistan
Barack Obama’s June 22 announcement of a phased troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was often portrayed as a major step towards ending the war, with many outlets neglecting to accurately explain the pace of escalation that has happened under his watch. Continue reading
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One Million March for Gaddafi: Where is this story?
Last Friday one million Libyans took to the streets of Tripoli to march in favour of their Brother Leader Muammar al-Qathafi and against the criminal precision-terrorism wrought on Libya’s population by NATO and the terrorist elements they are protecting. Yet where is this story? Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 19 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info Gates vigorously backs Libya policy Politico Gates defends the president against critics who question the legality of the operation in Libya. | AP Photo Close By BYRON TAU & ANDY BARR | 6/19/11 12:41 PM EDT In two farewell interviews Sunday as Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates launched a robust… Continue reading
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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay
In 2004, MediaTek sold 3 million of its chips [3]; six years later, its sales had soared to 500 million, more than a third of the worldwide market. Nearly half of those went to shanzhai. The sudden ability to design, manufacture, and ship millions of dirt-cheap handsets in total secrecy led to an explosion in… Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 12 June 2011
12 June 2011 — williambowles.info Fighting Continues in Libya, Creeps Toward Capital Voice of America Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have hammered rebels in the west with heavy weapons, as separate fighting creeps toward the capital, Tripoli. Reporters at the frontline near the rebel-held western town of Zintan say government forces … http:… Continue reading
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