Tag: Politics
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Reporters Without Borders Publishes How-To For Dissident Bloggers
Reporters Without Borders has published the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. It’s available for download in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian. The handbook is designed to encourage free speech online, regardless of what your local laws might have to say about it. There are tips on maintaining your privacy, blogging anonymously, and, perhaps most…
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It’s Margarita Time for “Brownie”
AP: “Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command Friday.” So Brown gets sent home to Washington to manage the situation from there, right? And do his job, right? Like solving the simple bureaucratic that problem…
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Why did the media know more than the government this week?
All week long, anyone reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching a television, or checking a blog in their RSS reader knew more than the President of the United States and his high-level staff seemed to know about what was going on in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and everywhere else torn up by Hurricane…
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Necessary Navel-Gazing In The Venezuelan Press
In the current Columbia Journalism Review, John Dinges runs down the recent history of a derailed free press in Venezuela, but offers some signs of hope that a healthy dose of self-analysis is curing the problems of bias and inaccuracy when it comes to reporting on the government. Dinges writes: Many journalists in Venezuela, where…
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Watching Scott McClellan Squirm
If you enjoy watching White House Press Secretaries squirm, today’s gaggle is for you. Video at Crooks and Liars, transcript at… the White House. I once read a Howard Kurtz book called Spin Cycle about the Clinton era Press Secretaries and how they dealt with scandals. As long as the president wasn’t lying to them,…
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Ethics and Global Marketing in Venezuela
I’ve posted a paper I wrote on Venezuela for an Anthropology class this summer on my Other Writing page. I’ve done my best to keep this paper as balanced as possible, trying to show how the current political culture in Venezuela has defined how the nation interacts with American corporations in certain cases. I do…
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Humans Subvert Hierarchy
I’ve written an email to Steve Sloan’s boss looking for some insight into why he was told that he is not allowed to record any podcasts with students. When I get a reply, I’ll try to tell SJSU’s side of the story. Steve’s been writing about how Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchy: This is where we cut…
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I’ll Be Checking For Cluetrain Tickets Later
A quick note to anyone following the Edupodder Censored thread: I’m a Journalism student, and I fully intend to talk to his boss and find out what the rationale is for not allowing Steve to talk to students on his podcast. I will tell both sides of this story. If you’re the boss in question,…