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The First Amendment and You!

2008-12-02T14:29:13Z

In this video I entertain the freedom of speech and the hypocrisy some individuals bring to the table when it comes to dissenting view points.

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Listening Post - Ramadan TV - 03 Oct 08 - Part 2

2008-11-01T03:30:18Z

we explore the biggest event on the Middle East's media calendar: 'Ramadan TV,' the battle for the hearts and minds of Islamic viewers and the big business that it brings.

As the Muslim world bids farewell to another month of fasting and worship, they also say goodbye to the vibrant, eclectic and often controversial programming that is, the Ramadan TV season. The Listening Post's Salah Khadr examines how the steady growth in viewers and ad revenue have led to charges of commercialism and left some viewers extremely unhappy.

In this week's Newsbytes: The Egyptian editor imprisoned for suggesting that President Hosni Mubarak was not well; the continuing media war in the Palestinian territories and the rogue images from Iraq; Italy and the outlawing of web blogs and the tiny US newspaper that takes a stand the rest of the US media could learn a lesson from.

Finally, for our Video of the Week, we are Stayin' Alive with a helping pair of hands from Gerry Phillips, the world wide web's very own 'Manualist.' With no instruments in sight, check out why this musical pioneer has hundreds of thousands of viewers putting their hands together to applaud him.

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What Newspapers Does Sarah Palin Read?

2008-11-01T03:33:23Z

Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com

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Headzup: Palin Actually Reads "All The Newspapers"

2008-11-30T16:54:52Z

As she told Katie Couric, Sarah Palin actually does read all the newspapers.

Read more about it here
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palins-news/

Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at www.headzup.tv

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Listening Post - US newspaper industry - 19 Sep 08 - Part 2

2008-10-31T03:30:28Z

The Listening Post's Robin Armstrong reports on the ailing US newspaper industry.

This is a chronic affliction - both advertising revenue and readership are shrinking, and newspapers across the country are performing something of a disappearing act. Moreover, US newspapers have seen their share value drop more than any other sector in the media industry, papers are haemorrhaging staff. They are faced with a choice: either migrate to the internet, or die.

The Listening Post goes to California, home of one of America's oldest and best-known titles, the San Francisco Chronicle, to see if the US newspaper industry is about to publish its own obituary.

In Newsbytes, we look at a cartoon saga in South Africa; an inflammatory DVD about Islamic extremism; media coverage of the forthcoming Belarusian parliamentary elections; a tightening of the grip on the media in China and Russian PM, Vladimir Putin, who is said to be fuming that an exclusive interview with CNN was heavily edited.

Closing our show with this week's Video of the Week is a quirky viral showing North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il as an animated video game character. Created by a German entertainment show, the video puts Jong Il through a Super Mario-like sequence, complete with hostile enemy countries and nuclear bombs.

Watch it at: www.youtube.com

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Rupert Murdoch - How Technology Has Changed the Media

2008-10-28T09:31:08Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch discusses how rapidly changing technologies have impacted news and entertainment media, and have made audiences more diverse and difficult-to-reach than ever before.

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned that "technology will continue to destroy all of the old ways and old assumptions, especially in the media" during an April 2 speech on "Creative Destruction: News for the 21st Century."

Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, a global media company with properties in film, television, print and online.

News Corporation's subsidiaries include Fox News Channel, Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal), 20th Century Fox, and MySpace - Georgetown University

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp).

Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. In recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet and media. News Corp is based in New York.

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British Newspapers

2008-12-02T14:55:57Z

A guide to British papers for TEFL students

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Eric Alterman - The Internet and the Future of News

2008-10-22T09:30:20Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Columnist and CUNY Professor of Journalism Eric Alterman speculates on the future of newspapers, in a conversation with FORA.tv founder and CEO Brian Gruber.

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Liberal columinst, blogger and author Eric Alterman sits down for an interview with FORA.tv Founder and CEO Brian Gruber to discuss his most recent book Why We're Liberals, the meaning of liberalism, and the state of politics in the United States.

Eric Alterman is distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and professor of journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, as well as the liberal columnist for The Nation and Altercation blogger for Media Matters for America(formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the "Think Again" column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films.

Alterman is the author of seven books, including the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, 2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004).

The others include: When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, (2004, 2005). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award, and Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998).

His newest book is Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush America, (2008).

Brian Gruber is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of FORA.tv.

Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch. As director of marketing for News Corp's FOXTEL, he helped build the most successful cable television brand in Australia, going from number three to number one in cable subscriptions, brand equity and consumer awareness. As the head of marketing of the largest urban divisions of 3 top ten cable companies (MSO's), he turned flat or negative subscriber growth into substantial gains. And as president of g/media and Principals.com, he has helped more than twenty new media companies develop brands, marketing strategies, and consumer products.

He also acted as the media advisor and new media producer for the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the nation's most prolific presenter of quality world affairs events.

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Has the Internet Killed Print Journalism?

2008-10-23T21:29:26Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy Wales debates internet cultural critic Andrew Keen on the fate of print journalism in the digital age.

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Web 2.0: Amateur Hour or Mass-ive Knowledge? A debate with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and author Andrew Keen.

In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion can post a video on YouTube, change an entry on Wikipedia or publish reviews on Yelp, we increasingly turn to the collective intelligence of large numbers of people.

Should we rely on the "wisdom of the crowds," trusting that they are smarter than the expert few? Or is Web 2.0 weakening traditional media to the point where we only have opinion and chaos? - The Commonwealth Club of California

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster and entrepreneur whose provocative book Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion."

Chronicle, a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and co-host of BioTech Nation on NPR. He has been a special correspondent and producer for ABC's Nightline and 20/20, and a producer for Discovery Television. He is a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNow!. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic, Fortune and MIT Technology Review, and was a longtime correspondent for Life. He also writes for Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times, among others. He contributes to the Dialogues column for Discover.

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Talk about changing editorial times....

2008-02-07T14:03:52Z

In case you haven't heard, The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin is about to undergo a major paradigm shift in its editorial approach.

As in switching to a twice-weekly tabloid after 90 years as an afterlunch broadsheet in printed form, with greater emphasis on the Information Stuoprbahn for breaking news coverage, from April.

The biweekly form will be:

a Wednesday edition devoted to news and opinion; and
a Thursday edition given to arts and culture.

Both will be included as inserts with the apropos editions of the Wisconsin State Journal, which will continue morning-and-Sunday publication, and will also be available free from racks in and around the Madison area.

In any case, the new form of Wisconsin's Progressive Newspaper will maintain its Progressive editorial leanings while keeping abreast of changing times and technology.

Josh Wolf - Transparency and the Media

2008-10-19T15:31:41Z

Video blogger and journalist Josh Wolf argues for greater transparency in politics and the media.

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"Freedom of the Blog," with Josh Wolf in conversation with Doug Sovern.

Josh Wolf, 25 year old video blogger, freelance journalist, and San Francisco mayoral candidate, served 226 days in prison after refusing to turn over a collection of videos of an anti-G8 anarchist protest to a Federal district court. Wolf, who was awarded the Journalist of the Year award by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2006, is considered by some a journalistic martyr, by others an "alleged journalist". Come hear his thoughts on freedom of the press in an age of technology, what defines a journalist and other issues.- Commonwealth Club of California

Joshua Wolf is an American video blogger and freelance journalist who was jailed by a Federal district court on August 1, 2006 for refusing to turn over a collection of videotapes he recorded during a July 2005 demonstration in San Francisco, California. Wolf served 226 days in prison at the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, California, longer than any other journalist in U.S. history has served for protecting source materials. With permission from the prosecution, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered Wolf's release on April 3, 2007. On July 4, 2007, Wolf announced that he has filed a declaration of intent to run for mayor of San Francisco against incumbent Gavin Newsom.

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Dave Barry - Why You Shouldn't Make Fun of North Dakota

2008-10-17T21:31:30Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry identifies what is, in his words, a common "theme" running throughout his career.

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Dave Barry discusses "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)."

So much has happened in our aughts already, it is imperative that we take a moment to review Dave Barry's year-by-year history of the millennium. He has, with great insight and courage, taken the time to record these turbulent times. For those with "outrage overload," this is a chance to laugh at it all - Politics and Prose

Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened.

Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.

Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll. - Dave Barry Official Website

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Inside Story - Egyptian newspapers go on strike -07Oct07 -P1

2008-10-23T21:29:49Z

Some newspapers are protesting over what they say is a clampdown on press freedom.

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Inside Story - Egyptian newspapers go on strike -07Oct07 -P2

2008-10-23T21:29:44Z

Some newspapers are protesting over what they say is a clampdown on press freedom.

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"Portrait #1: Kurt Hauglie"

2008-12-02T14:47:30Z

A trailer for a longer, documentary film about Kurt Hauglie was a reporter & columnist for a local, daily paper in Michigan until the editor decided his latest work -- criticizing the invasion of Iraq -- was "too extreme".

Information on how to get a copy of this full documentary is available at www.knowsaint.com, click on "Past".

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Lack of Confidence

2008-11-28T01:28:10Z

Democracy in the U.S. thrives on a multitude of institutions. But, Gallup finds that Americans lack confidence in many of them.

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