http://www.watchingthemedia.com/ Watching the Media en Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:35:00 GMT Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:35:00 GMT info@watchingthemedia.com info@watchingthemedia.com http://www.watchingthemedia.com/shanghai-metro/ Socially redeeming features of the internet No 10476: An abusive Shanghai Metro train passenger has changed her ways after a video recording made its way on to the internet. The... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/shanghai-metro/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/shanghai-metro/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:35:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-youtube-queen/ Australia's queen of YouTube, Natalie Tran, is one of just 10 independent YouTube stars around the world who made more than $US100,000 from the site in the past year. The... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-youtube-queen/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/australian-youtube-queen/ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:48:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/indonesian-tv-presenter-luna-arrested-over-sex-video-scandal/ Indonesian police have detained TV presenter Luna Maya, a suspect in the leaked sex videos scandal that rocked Indonesia. National Police spokesman Senior Commander said on Thursday July 15 that... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/indonesian-tv-presenter-luna-arrested-over-sex-video-scandal/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/indonesian-tv-presenter-luna-arrested-over-sex-video-scandal/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:02:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/twitter-commies-punch/ The editor of Murdoch's Australian company New Ltd's strange online site, The Punch, is all a twitter about Twitter claiming that it's all a communist plot. First there were reds... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/twitter-commies-punch/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/twitter-commies-punch/ Tue, 18 May 2010 08:14:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/bangkok-seh-daeng-tom-fuller/ Journalists are in the thick of things as Bangkok begins to erupt. At time of writing reports state that two foreign journalists were shot in the legs but details have... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/bangkok-seh-daeng-tom-fuller/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/bangkok-seh-daeng-tom-fuller/ Fri, 14 May 2010 11:33:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/sean-flynn-dana-stone-cambodia/ Some journalists who served as correspondents in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War years have become precious and disapproving of attempts to find the remains of Dana Stone and Sean... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/sean-flynn-dana-stone-cambodia/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/sean-flynn-dana-stone-cambodia/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:29:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/thailand-ptv-peoples-tv/ The time line below of Bangkok Post updates tells it all: the swift government reversal as red shirt protestors on Friday determinedly stormed the Thaicom centre to demand the reconnection... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/thailand-ptv-peoples-tv/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/thailand-ptv-peoples-tv/ Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:46:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/tmz-drugs-lawsuit-shostle/ A former TMZ producer has filed a lawsuit against the site, claiming he was fired for complaining about alcohol and drug use by other staffers on the job after he... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/tmz-drugs-lawsuit-shostle/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/tmz-drugs-lawsuit-shostle/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:26:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/murdoch-rotana-alwaleed/ "Murdoch's Arab foray seen as a Trojan horse," trumpets a Middle East Online headline. The tie-up between Arab entertainment giant Rotana and pro-Israel media mogul Rupert Murdoch is viewed in... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/murdoch-rotana-alwaleed/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/murdoch-rotana-alwaleed/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:23:00 GMT http://www.watchingthemedia.com/puerile-us-coverage-of-the-launch-of-cosmopolitan-magazine-in-vietnam/ Cosmopolitan magazine was launched in Vietnam this week and honours for one of the most ridiculous commentaries must go to America's Min Online. Min's puerile coverage reads: "Plenty of emotion... http://www.watchingthemedia.com/puerile-us-coverage-of-the-launch-of-cosmopolitan-magazine-in-vietnam/#comments http://www.watchingthemedia.com/puerile-us-coverage-of-the-launch-of-cosmopolitan-magazine-in-vietnam/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:57:00 GMT 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