Epoch Times – Chinese officials on Monday forced the shutdown of the English-language bureau of Al Jazeera in Beijing by denying the renewal of press credentials to its journalist in China and refusing to allow a replacement. The decision was reportedly driven by Al Jazeera’s release of a documentary about slave labor camps in China in November last year. Read Article
BBC – The public should be vigilant about persistent coughs as they could be a sign of lung cancer, a new government advertising drive is warning. The campaign, which is being run in TV, radio, print and online media, recommends people with coughs lasting three weeks visit their GP. Read article
Newstatesman – The illegal eavesdropping on well-known people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known? In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper. Australia is the world’s first murdochracy, in which smear by media is power. The most enduring and insidious Murdoch campaign has been against the Aboriginal people, who were dispossessed by the arrival of the British in the late 18th century and have never been allowed to recover. “Nigger hunts” continued into the 1960s and beyond. Read Article
Independent – A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives yesterday at the office of a major daily newspaper in the capital, Abuja, and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least seven people. The attack in Abuja struck the offices of ThisDay. The bombing in Kaduna struck offices for ThisDay, The Moment and The Daily Sun. Read Article
Nature – Avian H5N1 influenza viruses in the wild may be one small step away from spreading effectively between mammals. That is the sobering message from a controversial study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, published online by Nature1 after months of debate about how to release the findings publicly. “After wanting to read it for so long, it was like eating again after fasting,” says Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University in New York. “And it does not disappoint.” Read article
Editorial Comment: If you want to see a simple explanation of the reasons that the flus are classified with H and N with various numbers; click here. It makes the article easy to understand.
Related article: Despite Safety Worries, Work on Deadly Flu to Be Released
Huffington Post – Britain’s High Court has ordered the country’s Internet service providers to block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, the U.K.’s main music industry association said Monday. A High Court judge told Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media on Friday to prevent access to the Swedish site, which helps millions of people download copyrighted music, movies and computer games.
The New York Times – By his own telling, Rupert Murdoch has portrayed himself as a man with Britain’s most power-packed Rolodex: gossiping with Margaret Thatcher about Ronald Reagan, drinking too much after his backing secured an improbable victory for John Major, joshing that he and Tony Blair were like two porcupines mating, fielding barbed threats from Gordon Brown and slipping in the back door of 10 Downing Street as David Cameron’s first visitor after his election. Read Article
Whilst the media has been referred to as the “opiate of the masses”, we could also suggest that it serves a vital aspect of human societies; disseminating information. However, this valuable and powerful ability is one reason why the media can often be seen as both a powerful tool for good and bad. Since the 1950s, in the countries that have reached a high level of industrialization, the mass media of cinema, radio and TV have a key role in political power with the power of some of the largest media machines resting in the hands of an elite few.Keep up to date with a look at our Media news archive of 765 articles on the topic CLICK HERE
The New York Times – By his own telling, Rupert Murdoch has portrayed himself as a man with Britain’s most power-packed Rolodex: gossiping with Margaret Thatcher about Ronald Reagan, drinking too much after his backing secured an improbable victory for John Major, joshing that he and Tony Blair were like two porcupines mating, fielding barbed threats from Gordon Brown and slipping in the back door of 10 Downing Street as David Cameron’s first visitor after his election. Read Article
Business Insider – When Tom Vanden Brook and his editor Ray Locker researched a story about the astronomical sums being spent by military propaganda campaigns, one of their first stops was the Pentagon. Published in February, their story outlines a massive propaganda effort costing U.S. taxpayers hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars a year that produced dubious returns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read Article
The Guardian – In his first television interview, Glasenberg [Glencore CEO] said that Glencore took corporate responsibility seriously, saying: “We care about the environment. We care about the local communities.” But an investigation by the BBC’s Panorama has found Glencore dumping acid into a river and it discovered children as young as 10 working in the Tilwezembe mine, which was officially closed by Glencore in 2008. International law prohibits anyone under 18 working in a mine. Undercover researchers at Tilwezembe found under-18s who climbed down hand-dug mineshafts 150ft deep without safety or breathing equipment to dig copper and cobalt. Read article
Washington Post – A top National Rifle Association official levied sharp criticism against the national media on Saturday, accusing it of sensationalizing the Trayvon Martin case and ignoring other crimes that happen across the country every day. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre didn’t mention the Martin case by name during his speech at the group’s annual meeting in St. Louis, but he accused the media of “sensational reporting from Florida. Read Article
BBC – His father Rupert founded its parent company News Corporation, which had to drop its bid for BSkyB amid a phone-hacking scandal at a UK newspaper. Sources told Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, that it was James Murdoch’s decision to leave. They said it was an attempt to pre-empt further criticism as investigations continue into phone hacking. Read article
AAP – A man jailed over riots on Palm Island has lost a High Court appeal against terms of his parole which prevent him from talking to the media or attending public meetings. Lex Wotton, 44, was jailed in 2008 for his role in riots after the death of Cameron Doomadgee in police custody in 2004. The island’s police station was burned down during the riots. Read Article
Forbes – We worked with Bitly and its data on millions of Web clicks to find the most influential media outlets in the country. This map shows which news sources are read and shared at above-average levels by state. Roll over and click on the media outlets below to see where they influence readers and which stories were big hits. Updated monthly to reflect the latest trends. Read Article
Reuters – A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Cigarette makers had sued to stop the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new labeling and advertising requirements on grounds the rules violated their First Amendment right to communicate with adult tobacco consumers. Read article
Independent – Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has been dragged into allegations of corporate espionage in the lucrative satellite television market dominated by News Corp companies. An Italian computer expert who is the prime suspect in a piracy ring on trial on Italy for the alleged targeting of pay-TV companies was working as a consultant for a News Corp subsidiary involved in the industry. Read Article
BusinessInsider – A few days ago we reported on how word of a Chinese coup attempt had soured the markets, following a report from the Epoch Times. Rumor had it that tanks were in the streets, and gunshots were being fired near the Forbidden City. While the news is supposed to be false, the BBC says they actually have no idea what’s going on and The Daily Mail reports China has scrubbed its Internet of all reports, rumors, and speculation of what’s happening on the ground. Read article
The Blaze – The Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution condemning speech on radio that some may find “intolerable.” According to the local CBS station in L.A., Councilmember Jan Perry “introduced legislation this week that would call upon media companies to ensure ‘on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs’ on radio and other broadcasts.” Read Article
Reuters – James Murdoch has severed all ties with News Corp’s British newspaper business, which is at the centre of multiple investigations over phone and computer hacking and bribery, according to regulatory filings. Murdoch is under scrutiny for his role in failing to uncover systematic illegal interception of phone calls at the News of the World newspaper, which was shut down last July, and stepped down as chairman of News Corp’s UK publishing arm last month. Read Article
HD Guru – Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data. Read Article
AP – A new Israeli law is trying to fight the spread of eating disorders by banning underweight models from local advertising and requiring publications to disclose when they use altered images to make women and men appear thinner. The law, passed late Monday, appears to be the first attempt by any government to use legislation to take on a fashion industry accused of abetting eating disorders by idealizing extreme thinness. It could become a model for other countries grappling with the spread of anorexia and bulimia, particularly among young women. Read article
BusinessInsider – While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum duke it out for delegates in high-profile primaries like Illinois and Pennsylvania, Ron Paul’s quiet pursuit of delegates appears to be paying off. Read article
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
