Stories about Media & Journalism from October, 2007
Iran:Letter to Yahoo
Kourosh Ziabari has written a letter to Yahoo:”Yahoo mail has recently removed “Iran” from the list of world countries in its signup page!We, therefore, ask Yahoo! to add Iran to the mentioned list again.”
Jordan: Media and Elections Snippets
Jordanian Lina Ejeilat shares with us snippets of news about media and the upcoming Jordanian parliamentary elections in this post. Among the snippets is an article about 46 women from Erbid running in the elections.
Lebanon: Al Jazeera Interview
Lebanese academician and blogger Dr As'ad Abu Khalil links to his interview with Al Jazeera here. The interview was on the private security firms in Iraq.
Cuba: Of Speeches and Workshops
While The Cuban Triangle comments on US President George Bush's speech about democratic change in Cuba, Child of the Revolution almost “missed a big event currently under way in Havana. Believe it or not, the Castro regime is hosting something called the 2nd International Workshop on Financial Management.”
Barbados, Dominica: Journalist Sued
“It all started when The Times published an article asking how it was that the Prime Minister acquired a million dollars worth of real estate on his politician’s salary”: Barbados Free Press reports that the editor of a Dominica newspaper is being sued by the island's Prime Minister.
South Korea: Crime Against Women
Robert Koehler shows how gender, race and crime are mingled together in journalistic report.
Lebanon: Westernized Lebanese
“It's very common for the Western journalists to talk about “Westernized” Lebanese. It seems, however, that with this term they are identifying only one part of what is the West […] In reality they are only identifying those middle class characteristics found across the globe in this globalized world,” writes...
Turkey: Media Interview
The team at Metroblogging Istanbul were interviewed by The Washington Post for the series How the world sees America – Amar C. Bakshi talks to America's lovers and haters around the world.
Trinidad & Tobago: Politcal Debates
Notes from a small island is all for Trinidad and Tobago's political party leaders having a debate, “fielding specific questions about the real issues affecting the nation.”
Bangladesh: Bloggers mobilise against domestic violence
(Logo credit: Amnesty International) October is Domestic Violence Awareness month in the USA, devoted to connecting battered women’s advocates across the nation to work together to end violence against women and children. The issue, however, is not country specific. Domestic violence is a menace that is found all over the...
Russia: Dubrovka Investigation
David McDuff of A Step At A Time translates an article on the investigation into the 2002 Dubrovka hostage crisis in Moscow.
Press freedom in Benin takes nosedive
Babilown writes about Benin's steep drop (Fr) in Reporters Without Borders’ annual country ranking of press freedom.
Burkina Faso: Corrupt journalists
Ramata Sore writes (Fr) about National Press Day in Burkina Faso and how many journalists are compromised by politics.
Slovenia: Media Business
Sleeping With Pengovsky writes about recent developments in Slovenian media business.
Russia: Bloggers Discuss James Watson
James Watson, an American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, provoked international outrage when The Sunday Times quoted him on race issues on Oct. 14. The news of the controversy produced a certain stir in the Russian-language blogosphere, too.
Malaysia: AstroNot
KurtLow is wondering why Malaysian media is calling the first Malaysian in space an astronaut when the space mission web site just refers to him as an participant.
Honduras: Murder of Radio Journalist
Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve writes about the murder of radio journalist Carlos Salgado in Honduras.
Russia: Election Blogging
An overview of blogs covering the upcoming Russian election – at TOL's Vybory v Rossii.
Russia: Tatarstan
Window on Eurasia comments on Moscow's complex relationship with Tatarstan.
Uganda: What Press Freedom?
Uganda Scarlett Lion discusses Press Freedom in Uganda: “While it appears that Uganda has improved in Press Freedom Rankings from 116 to 96 (a big jump), things are without problems in the Ugandan media.”
Uganda: Poverty and Paris Hilton
Wednesday's Public Poverty Forum in Kampala had one blogger, Tumwijukue, asking, “Did they (re)define poverty? Did they speak of poverty of the mind? Or did they merely use the event as a networking opportunity and an excuse to miss work for the day, rushing to the organizer's table at the end of the forum for the Ushs. 50,000 delegates' allowance?”
