Stories about Media & Journalism from March, 2006
Ukraine: “Wrong Adjectives” To Describe Yushchenko
Peter Byrne of Abdymok points out the “wrong adjectives” used to describe Ukraine's president Victor Yushchenko in a Wall Street Journal piece on his relationship with former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Ukraine: TV Debates
LEvko of Foreign Notes makes predictions on what the upcoming TV debates between the Ukrainian politicians are going to be like.
China: China Digital Times blocked?
Non-violent Resistance says that China Digital Times is now blocked in China, and that all the distrust created by the Massage Milk hoax has stopped anyone reporting on it.
Slovenia: Swedish Paper Solves Slovenia-Croatia Border Dispute
Michael of The Glory of Carniola reports on how yet another newspaper has lost Slovenia on the map.
Romania: Hungary Day
Tomorrow is the day when Hungarian nationalists in Udvarhely, a Romanian city whose population is 98% ethnic Hungarian, may clash with their Romanian counterparts, reports Andy H of Csikszereda musings: “[…] And once again the fact that broadly speaking Hungarians and Romanians live together fairly successfully and without rancour, will...
Nigeria: No freedom for press
Chippla reports on the the impounding by security forces of an essay by Nigerian journalists who criticised the President's campaign for a third term.
Kenya: bloggers meet the mainstream
ThinkersRoom reports that the Kenyan Daily Nation featured Kenyan bloggers “My one gripe — a very healthy imagination on the party of the author. I’m not 29. At no time did I divulge my age, or indeed anything personal about myself. Check your facts, ladies and gentlemen, check your facts”
Mongolia: Corruption and Censorship
Shards of Mongolia says that corruption in the Mongolian government causes it to not do enough to stop censorship, and that if it truly wants to claim itself as a free and democratic state, it must do more to combat this problem.
Polish Blogosphere Update
Don't ever lose your wallet in Poland, especially if it contains your bank card – that's the lesson gleaned from expat Wendy Lady of The Poland Diaries. After reading about her ordeal to a open a bank account, I have concluded that Eurocrats can learn a thing or two from...
Ethiopia: journalist jailed
EthioBlog reports that an Ethiopian jounalist has been sentenced to one year in prison for writing “false news”. Meanwhile another journalist, pregnant Internet journalist Frezer Negash was freed from custody.
Africa: press freedom
Yebo Gogo comments on press freedom or rather lack of it in Africa. The problem is not just in Kenya, recently a Canadian journalist was expelled from Uganda and in Nigeria a journalist critical of the President is now in hiding.
KenyanSphere this week
In the followup to the government sanctioned raid on the standard newspaper on thursday March 2nd, kenyan blogger/journalist John Kamau gives a detailed piece showing John Michuki's background, thus giving a more in depth look at the man who defended the government over the attack. He notes, A man who...
The Lebanese Bloggers this week. Pessimism and a sense of foreboding, but life goes on.
Last week, I wrote about how the Lebanese bloggers were not optimistic about the outcome from the National dialogue. As if they were sensing trouble, it happened: One of the top politicians in the meeting left the dialogue in mid session and flew to Washington, were he made statements perceived...
Interview with Nasrin Alavi
There are about 75000 blogs in Persian in world and their numbers are growing fast. We are Iran, written by Nasrin Alavi and published in English and German. It is first book written about Iranian blogs. WE ARE IRAN was amongst a handful of books last year recommended by English...
Russia: Reuters and Wall Street Journal Coverage
Charlie Ganske of Russia Blog criticizes Reuters’ coverage of Russia's Middle East policies and responds to Richard Pipes’ Wall Street Journal piece (“emblematic of a deeper problem in how the West views Russia”) with shallow remarks summarizing earlier arguments presented on the blog.
Iran: Street & Nuclear
View from Iran, an Iran based blogger, talks about Iranian public opinion about nuclear issues. Blogger says “Why do Iranians mistrust everything the government tells them, but trust their spin when it comes to the nuclear issue?” We were wondering last night. If you have followed the nuclear issue at...
Anglo-Venezuelan Blogosphere Conspiracy
Este post también está disponible en español. Peace Journalism brought to us this week a post about the political polarization on the Internet and citizen-information Venezuelan blogs. Relentlessly optimistic the young journalist says: thanks to the majority being prone toward dialogue, bigger and better spaces for tolerance, inclusion, or at...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Press secretary murdered
Abeni worries that the murder of the government's press secretary may be politically motivated.
Bahamas: Why no treasure report?
Larry Smith attributes the absence of reports about the cache of treasure rumoured to have been found in San Salvador (Bahamas) from the mainstream media to laziness and dependency on press releases.
China: Critical Readers Named
Wang Yi's Microphone posts a list of the core members of the Critical Reading Group of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department, and key officials in the secretive Propaganda Department itself. The former includes: Foreign Affairs Ministry News Department officer Song Ronghua; Ministry of Information Industry inspector Song Naiqi;...
China: The Great Blog Hoax
After managing to get some overseas MSM stalwarts to report on their ‘demise’, Massage Milk and MilkPig are back. In this post, entitled ‘Sorry’ (ZH), Massage Milk says this wasn't the intention. Read all about it, here on ESWN.