Archive for the ‘Corporate media’ Category
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Al Gore's Current TV has launched and The Guardian has a review:The ultimate effect is a well-meaning effort by a middle-aged politician to appeal to young people. But then of course, that is what it is.
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Monday, August 1st, 2005
RTÉ reports today that City Channel, the David Harvey-led group that recently launched in Dublin, plan to expand shortly into Galway and Waterford. They are negotiating with NTL for carriage and then plan to approach the BCI for a license, when the other aspects are a done deal.
I wonder what ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2005
There's a reason I avoid watching cable news channels.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Word today of government plans for a Digital Terrestrial Television trial in Ireland. What's significant is that it seems that the trial is being conducted by the government itself, separate from RTÉ's technical subsidiary - though RTÉ could (and probably will) tender for the network and transmission elements. What will ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Jonathan Lawson of Reclaim the Media points to the danger being faced by Seattle high-school station KNHC. Unlike previous cases I've covered previously this time the danger is from the school district itself which faces a large budget shortfall and is considering selling the station. In a sign of the ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
I received an interesting mail today about digital television that highlights the manner in which digital broadcasters are neglecting the public interest. The release, which I include below, comes from the Media Policy Program of the Campaign Legal Center and is tied to a campaign to pressure congress to ensure ...
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
"These programmes touch a raw nerve", said the RTUK's head, Fatih Karaca, in support of the closures. "They discuss family, children, marital relations - sensitive topics to Turks - in an indecently open way."If you're interested in the public/private sphere division, women's rights or the role of talk shows in ...
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
I rarely watch network news. I generally use television for entertainment and it rarely occurs to me to browse by the news channels.
The only real exception is when I'm in a hotel, where the news channels tend to outnumber the others. The problem is that news channels also tend to ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2005
I'm sitting in the opening session of the 'academic braintrust' session. Bob has promised to address the name at some point in the future.
Mark Cooper is up next and arguing that the window for involvement in the area (policy and media) has been open for some time. Cooper has just ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
An interesting piece by Jay Rosen highlights the manner in which the press and broadcasting tend to have a national identity as opposed to, for example, literature where national boundaries aren't of overarching importance.
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