Tag: mainstream media
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Occupy Wall Street
As mentioned in my previous post, there’s a lot of ignorance by mainstream media of the Occupy Wall Street protests – reminds me of the Gay Pride protests how it took Live8 and Geldof turning up before Gay Pride EVER made the evening news here…and people have been making out the protests are small and…
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Occupy Wall Street owns Fox News
I’ve been hearing dribs and drabs about the Wall Street (and now other places) protests about the 1% controlling the 99% and corporate interest trumping the people. I say dribs and drabs as there’s very little coverage in the mainstream media, over here anyway. Long may the protests continue – others may be cynical but…
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Apple ‘amateur hour’ – old media vs new media
When Apple launched podcasting as part of iTunes in February 2005 (creating the second wave of podcasters, fact fans) it seemed a victory for user-generated content, the new media vs gatekeeper approved old media – Hollywood and the big broadcasters. Soon though it became clear as independent podcasts got shoved off the homepage and then…
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…