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Archive for August, 2008
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008Who is the “ballet dancer walking on water”?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The opening sentence of this commentary on Israeli politics tells me that I have to read Haaretz more often:
In a country flooded with surveys, where politicians are fighting with all their might to keep from drowning, Benjamin Netanyahu stands out like a ballet dancer walking on water.
And this is not meant as praise!
Clearing the air in time?
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Everybody’s talking about the weather, and the Chinese are even trying to do something about it. The weather in Beijing competes with internet censorship as the big story just days before the Olympics start. The Asia Society has released a good multimedia production in cooperation with MediaStorm, Clearing the air. There is also a daily photo feature which shows that today, the weather is just super. (tip: MediaStorm blog). The Beijing Air blog completes the picture.
More internet freedom in China, for how long?
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008The unblocking of several important regime-critical websites the past few days makes the internet more free for people in China, not only for journalists in the Olympics press centre. Andrew Lih has compiled a list and observes:
This is actually quite remarkable for folks living in China. The “Big Three” NGOs that have been unrelenting critics of China have been reliably blocked for years. YZZK (Yazhou Zhoukan) and Apple Daily both in Hong Kong, have done some of the most critical journalism regarding China.
The OpenNet Initiative, which does in-depth studies and monitoring of the Great Firewall, notes on their blog:
Another open question is whether China’s Internet filtering practices will be transformed in the rest of the country, and for how long. For most Chinese citizens the situation appears to be more of the same–the usual strict supervision goes into hyperdrive as sensitive political events unfold. As international media focused their attention on websites hosted overseas, China has already tightened control over domestic cyberspace, such as online discussions on online forums and chat rooms.
The “Firewall”, of course, has many aspects. One of the best accounts I have read is James Fallows’ in The Atlantic.
Tradisjonalistene i kulturredaksjonene
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Mens de norske mediekommentatorene har stagnert de siste årene, holder Martin Jönsson i Svenska Dagbladet et jevnt høyt nivå. Her om dagen tok han for seg kulturjournalistikken, en respons på at Expressen hadde invitert bloggere som gjesteskribenter på kultursidene (et av oppslagene i pdf-format). Det tok folk med klippekort på disse sidene ille opp, men som Jönsson påpeker:
Alltför många kulturredaktioner refererar och recenserar fortfarande lydigt nyutkomna papperstidskrifter, böcker och CD-utgåvor, men har dörren stängd för nya sajter, bloggar och mp3-släpp. Nätet tar allt större del av vår medievardag (lika mycket som alla tidningar, tidskrifter och böcker tillsammans, enligt senaste Mediebarometern från Göteborgs Universitet); då förtjänar det också en tyngre viktning inom den pappersbundna kulturjournalistiken.
