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64% of Americans Say Media Overplayed Michael Jackson Story
Written on 9 Jul, 2009 at 17:46 in Entertainment, Featured | viewed 591 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Nearly two in three Americans said news organizations gave too much coverage to the sudden death of Michael Jackson in the days following his June 25 heart attack in Los Angeles, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. While 64 percent deemed media attention to the 50-year-old pop superstar excessive, 29 percent thought it was appropriate and only 3 percent thought there was not enough coverage. Full Story : Adweek.com….
Political Blogs More Credible than Newspapers, Say Those Who Read Both
Written on 28 Jun, 2009 at 11:25 in Featured, General | viewed 1,459 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
According to research by a Brigham Young University political scientist, people who closely follow both political blogs and traditional news media tend to believe the content on blogs is more accurate. Professor Richard Davis reports this and other blog-related insights in Typing Politics, a new book published by Oxford University Press. Davis studied daily blog readers from a nationally representative sample and found that just 3 percent got most of their news from blogs. Most readers still got their information from traditional news organizations, despite some bloggers’ predictions that they would entirely replace traditional media. Instead blogs have become an echo chamber that extends the shelf life of news stories, Davis said. Full Story : Dagorret.com…
Twitter blocked in China
Written on 2 Jun, 2009 at 12:42 in Featured, Politics | viewed 353 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
The Great Firewall of China has grown again. Forty-eight hours ahead of the most sensitive date on the Chinese calendar, a host of popular websites, including photo-sharing site Flickr.com, search engines Livesearch.com and Bing.com (Microsoft’s answer to Google), as well as Hotmail, are all suddenly inaccessible, in addition to Twitter.com. Video-sharing site YouTube and blogger portals Wordpress and Blogspot have already been blocked for weeks. Full Story : TheglobeandMail.com…..
Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
Written on 3 May, 2009 at 13:50 in Featured, Politics | viewed 251 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until recently, Facebook and YouTube. Now, more than 400,000 Iranians were surfing the uncensored Web, using the software which was created by Chinese computer experts volunteering for the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that has beem suppressed by the Chinese government since 1999. Full Story : NYTimes.com……
YouTube banned in Pakistan.
Written on 24 Feb, 2008 at 10:50 in Politics, Technology | viewed 315 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam. Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad which outraged many is featured in Youtube. The website would remain blocked till further orders. Other countries that have temporarily blocked access to YouTube include Turkey and Thailand. Thailand lifted the band later after the video which insulting King had been removed from the site.