As we just discussed scandals in class I thought it appropriate to bring attention to Mitch Daniels responding to an interviewer's question on his arrest for marijuana use. Daniels who is weighing a presidential bid now has to face the skeleton that he thought was way behind him. I guess your past always comes back to haunt you especially when you're running for office and the media is on you.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Should Al Jazeera join American tv?
TIME spoke with Abderrahim Foukara, Washington bureau chief for the Al Jazeera Arabic channel, about the channel's unique identity and why it deserves a greater American audience.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2052934,00.html#ixzz1Eo0L4SIB How does that lens compare to the idea much vaunted in the U.S. of journalistic objectivity?
To be honest, I don't know what objective journalism means. The environment in which you broadcast obviously colors your coverage. If you are an American network broadcasting from the U.S., you will be broadcasting with a sensibility which may not look necessarily objective to an audience in another part of the world. And the same is true if you're a network like Al Jazeera Arabic, broadcasting out of the Middle East. But we have to go beyond that. We should agree on the necessity to provide information in a timely manner. We cannot live in a world where a story like Egypt — which has consequences for the whole world — is unfolding and your audience doesn't know anything about it or enough about it.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2052934,00.html#ixzz1Enza9WvT
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2052934,00.html#ixzz1Eo0L4SIB How does that lens compare to the idea much vaunted in the U.S. of journalistic objectivity?
To be honest, I don't know what objective journalism means. The environment in which you broadcast obviously colors your coverage. If you are an American network broadcasting from the U.S., you will be broadcasting with a sensibility which may not look necessarily objective to an audience in another part of the world. And the same is true if you're a network like Al Jazeera Arabic, broadcasting out of the Middle East. But we have to go beyond that. We should agree on the necessity to provide information in a timely manner. We cannot live in a world where a story like Egypt — which has consequences for the whole world — is unfolding and your audience doesn't know anything about it or enough about it.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2052934,00.html#ixzz1Enza9WvT
Monday, February 21, 2011
China on Gaurd
Ensuing the wave of pro-democracy protests sweeping the Middle East the Chinese government is on high alert. Although no large scale demonstrations have begun the government is acting with strong force assuring that any inkling of rebellion is done away with. It seems as if the Chinese have learned from the global chaos that is erupting and making sure their country is not the next to be hit with upheaval.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBXCYEXxKXA
This is a perfect example of how public opinion could be understood from something as simple as a home video.
This is a perfect example of how public opinion could be understood from something as simple as a home video.
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