The Editors (BBC) OhmyNews International blogs.news.com.au WSJ Opinion Journal Terry Flew Larvatus ProdeoI’m still getting to know my camera. I’ve had it since Christmas but haven’t had a lot of time to explore and learn more about its capabilities. The time for learning this stuff is drawing closer every day as I approach the completion of my current research project.
I tried taking some shots of the moon last night, which turned out to be very ordinary, not worth posting any at all.
Ah well, it’s back to my real job for now.
By the way, this blog entry was posted from my flickr account.
This interview provides insight into the past, present and future of journalism.
It’s 56 mins of valuable information.
There is a comprehensive list of relevant links to information about the current events in Iran here
This headline posted on the Yahoo website, “US rejects victory claim by Iran’s Ahmadinejad” is incorrect because it isn’t representative of the article or of the US government’s position.
The video embedded in the Yahoo article shows the US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton saying, “the US has refrained from commenting on the election in Iran.”
Interestingly, the article quotes the next part of Clinton’s statement, “we are watching and monitoring…but we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide.”
What happens when people only read the headlines? What kind of information do they have? Shouldn’t the headline represent what’s in the article, and what happened?
The headline originates from the site shown below.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=OHALL2&query=iran
I saw the link to this blog post on Twitter—The crazy again in power.
Stephen Hutcheon interviewed Google employee Marissa Mayer about Google’s role in the news industry’s problems.
Mayer spoke with Hutcheon following a meeting in Chicago where a paper by the American Press Institute about the future of news gathering was presented to US newspaper executives.
“A paper prepared by the American Press Institute was presented at
the meeting detailing a plan to better protect the newspapers’
online content from unfair use by aggregators and bottom-feeders
and to reclaim a bigger cut of the revenues from that content.”
In response to the API paper, and in defense of Google, Mayer reviewed the way some news sites present their content online and said that some fail to provide links, external or internal to further information so users can continue their online experience.
“She points out how sites such as YouTube and the online retailer
Amazon.com construct their content so that there is always more to
buy or more to watch. “I can go to various newspapers and when you
scroll down to the bottom, what do you do next?There were related stories and related videos but those were up
on the top. So now the most committed user – the one that reads
through the entire piece – is now looking at the bottom of the page
with nothing to do.”"HUTCHEON TAKES NOTE OF MAYER'S ADVICE
Read the entire article at the SMH
I was surprised to see a naturalised reference to an “axis of evil” on the Huffington Post’s front page, as shown here, only days after Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt.
Why refer to "Axis of Evil"?
In his speech, Obama rejected the practice of negative stereotyping and he emphasised the need for all people to avoid being held prisoner by past mistakes. Given that this front page, of a globally distributed US publication, repeats one of the more negative assertions made by the previous US government while the current administration attempts to overcome some of the less than diplomatic political events and decisions of the past, it makes me wonder about the responsibility of some parts of the press. Is it the role of the press, or the right of a free press to reinforce the ideologies of a previous government, which are now held in disdain by a clear majority of citizens?
While the headline links to a story at the Financial Times, was the narrative on the HuffPo’s front page created by Huffington Post editors and what was the story they wanted to tell?
Russell Adams and Shira Ovide at the Wall Street Journal say, yes. Yes, newspapers can demand payment from the web if they are careful about the law” (Adams & Ovide, 2009).
How so?
Drawing from the music industry model where two large organisations control the business transactions on behalf of many writers (”millions of songs” in total) this article suggests the idea of a collective action where news organisations would band together to prevent their news items from being distributed, for free, across the web.
The article talks about how to get around the anti-trust laws.
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