http://www.watchingthemedia.com/ Watching the Media en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:41:00 GMT Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:41:00 GMT info@watchingthemedia.com info@watchingthemedia.com http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-comments-on-australias-plans-to-filter-the-internet/ Electronic Frontiers Australia reports that the Australian government's plans to crack down on internet content have drawn the attention of the Chinese government. The website of China's State Council Information... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-comments-on-australias-plans-to-filter-the-internet/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-comments-on-australias-plans-to-filter-the-internet/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:41:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australia-is-the-worlds-first-murdochcracy-according-to-john-pilger/ Advocacy journalist John Pilger claims in the New Statesman that Australia is the world's first "murdochracy." He writes, "Rupert Murdoch's overweening power goes unchallenged in Australia, where all the main... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australia-is-the-worlds-first-murdochcracy-according-to-john-pilger/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australia-is-the-worlds-first-murdochcracy-according-to-john-pilger/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:37:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/playboy-john-mayer-jessica-simpson/ Obviously there is some credence in the theory that some people read Playboy magazine for the articles. During an earnings conference call on Thursday Feb 18 with analysts, Playboy president... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/playboy-john-mayer-jessica-simpson/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/playboy-john-mayer-jessica-simpson/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:36:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/obsessive-us-story-attribution/ One of the increasing murmurs in the media industry is that the problems with modern journalism is really a problem with American journalism, which has become cluttered with jargon and... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/obsessive-us-story-attribution/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/obsessive-us-story-attribution/ Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:10:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/climate-change-scepticism/ Conservative columnist for The Australian newspaper, Christopher Pearson writes this weekend that "Last weekend looks likely to have been a tipping point in the media debate on climate change in... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/climate-change-scepticism/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/climate-change-scepticism/ Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:02:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/blogging-popularity-wanes/ An American study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/blogging-popularity-wanes/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/blogging-popularity-wanes/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:56:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-gmail-mcafee/ International journalists in China said that their Google e-mail accounts have been hacked in attacks similar to the ones against human rights activists that the search giant cited as a... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-gmail-mcafee/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/china-gmail-mcafee/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:29:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/cambodia-daily-bayon-kampuchea-thmey/ The daughter of Cambodia's prime minister Hun Sen is rumoured to soon take control of one of the nation's largest Khmer-language newspapers, the pro-government Kampuchea Thmey. Hun Sen's daughter, Hun... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/cambodia-daily-bayon-kampuchea-thmey/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/cambodia-daily-bayon-kampuchea-thmey/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:10:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/lonely-planet-bbc-crikey/ Provocative Aussie website Crikey on Friday published an internal Lonely Planet email from global publishing chief Piers Pickard pointing out that the print edition of the company's Czech & Slovak... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/lonely-planet-bbc-crikey/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/lonely-planet-bbc-crikey/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:25:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/reporters-without-borders-vietnam/ Reporters without Borders has castigated the Vietnamese government, claiming it is "behaving in a criminal manner towards certain prisoners of conscience, keeping them in detention although they are in very... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/reporters-without-borders-vietnam/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/reporters-without-borders-vietnam/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:31:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/burma-vj-academy-awards/ A documentary film on the crackdown on Buddhist monk-led protests in Myanmar in September 2007 has been shortlisted among the nominations for next year's Academy Awards. The documentary, Burma VJ... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/burma-vj-academy-awards/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/burma-vj-academy-awards/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:07:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/rupert-murdoch-kevin-rudd-sensitive/ Strange, somewhat contradictory reports about Rupert Murdoch's comments about whether or not the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is too sensitive appeared in Australian media over the weekend. Firstly, Murdoch's... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/rupert-murdoch-kevin-rudd-sensitive/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/rupert-murdoch-kevin-rudd-sensitive/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:15:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-times-suu-kyi/ One of Myanmar's leading media-savvy politicians who was caught up and jailed in the 2004 government purge has died in jail. Win Aung, a former Myanmar foreign minister and one... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-times-suu-kyi/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-times-suu-kyi/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:55:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-broadcasting-corporation-cnn-bbc/ Public broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation's managing director Mark Scott has outlined sweeping changes for the future of the corporation's international broadcasting operations, calling for the unification of its radio and... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-broadcasting-corporation-cnn-bbc/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-broadcasting-corporation-cnn-bbc/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:37:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-radio-australia-abc/ Radio Australia launched its much-delayed re-introduced service to Myanmar on October 26, with the commencement date of a Myanmar-language component to be announced shortly. This follows a statement by the... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-radio-australia-abc/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/myanmar-radio-australia-abc/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT