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27 Jul 09

New Statesman - Lies, damn lies

  • Murdoch’s papers have relentlessly assaulted common truth and decency, but their most successful war has been on journalism itself

Film content, editing, and directing style affect brain activity, NYU neuroscientists show

  • "The fact that Hitchcock was able to orchestrate the responses of so many different brain regions, turning them on and off at the same time across all viewers, may provide neuroscientific evidence for his notoriously famous ability to master and manipulate viewers' minds. Hitchcock often liked to tell interviewers that for him 'creation is based on an exact science of audience reactions.' "
  • While they add that a cognitive science analysis of film is not new, functional imaging methods may be of use to both film theorists and the film industry by providing a quantitative, neuroscientific assessment of viewers' engagement with a film.
24 Aug 08

Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

  • Corporations are not in the business of news. They hate news, real news. Real news is not convenient to their rape of the nation. Real news makes people ask questions. They prefer to close the prying eyes of reporters. They prefer to transform news into another form of mindless amusement and entertainment. 
19 Aug 08

Georgia has won the PR war

On the Press, Peter Wilby: Saakashvili's government has won the press over with a skillfully deployed PR campaign

www.guardian.co.uk/...pressandpublishing.georgia - Preview

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31 Jul 08

Death of Free Internet is Imminent

  • However,
    when there
    are
    potential
    profits open
    to a
    corporation,
    the needs of
    society
    don't count.
    Take the
    recent case
    in Canada
    with the
    behemoths,
    Telus and
    Rogers
    rolling out
    a charge for
    text
    messaging
    without any
    warning to
    the public.
    It was an
    arrogant and
    risky move
    for the
    telecommunications
    giants
    because it
    backfired.
    People
    actually
    used
    Internet
    technology
    to deliver a
    loud and
    clear
    message to
    these
    companies
    and that was
    to scrap the
    extra
    charge. The
    people used
    the power of
    the Internet
    against the
    big boys and
    the little
    guys won.
  • a
    diabolical
    plot by Bell
    Canada and
    Telus, to
    begin
    charging per
    site fees on
    most
    Internet
    sites.     
    The plan is
    to convert
    the Internet
    into a
    cable-like
    system,
    where
    customers
    sign up for
    specific web
    sites, and
    then pay to
    visit sites
    beyond a
    cutoff
    point.
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15 Jul 08

John Cusack: Bypassing the Corporate Media

Cusack's anti-war polemic, War, Inc., continues to defy expectations, despite the traditional media's dismissive reception.

www.alternet.org/...91114 - Preview

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The Problems of Language in Israeli Journalism

  • ‘Journalists and publishers see themselves as actors within the Zionist movement, not as critical outsiders.’
01 Mar 08

Journalist designated an enemy combatant

  • He de
    >clined to provide details about the "credible information" and would not say if Ahmad had more contact with militants than other journalists working in Afghanistan.
  • "Although the Pentagon has made a very serious assertion, it has yet to disclose any supporting evidence. And despite holding Jawed Ahmad for four months, authorities have yet to charge him with a crime,"
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