28
Feb
Living In The Age of Great Media
MEDIA MORASS
NY TIMES SUES BUSH ADMINISTRATION
”The New York Times sued the US Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying programme. The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060227/ts_nm/security_nsa_nytimes_dc - AP, Yahoo News
LA TIMES “L.A. Icon Otis Chandler Dies at 78”
Times publisher from 1960 to 1980 led paper into journalism’s front ranks
Also gone: Dennis Weaver Dead of Cancer at 81
TV’s “McCloud” first gained fame as deputy Chester Goode in the classic western “Gunsmoke”
CNN says US Officials Believe Jill Still Alive
”Iraqi officials believe kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and they are working toward her release, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Monday. The latest in a series of apparent deadlines set by kidnappers holding Carroll passed Sunday with no word on her fate. Her abductors, a group calling itself Brigades of Vengeance, have said they will kill Carroll if the United States does not release all women it has detained in Iraq.”
Other foreign journalists were just released:
”Two French journalists were freed in Iraq Tuesday, ending a 4-month hostage ordeal at the hands of Islamic militants that had shocked France and embarrassed President Jacques Chirac’s government.
“I have the profound joy of announcing that Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot have been freed by the Islamic Army (in Iraq),” Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told France’s Senate to loud applause followed by a standing ovation.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/22/content_402363.htm
OTHER MEDIA NEWS
Is ‘Da Vinci Code’ Plagiarism?
http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e475259368&e=6421
ABCNEWS.com
Kevin Marsh: Britain deserves better journalism
http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e475257378&e=6421 reg
Guardian Unlimited
Citizen Journalism Gets Financial Infusion
”One of the world’s most successful citizen journalism sites, Korea’s OhmyNews, has gotten an $11-million investment from Softbank. The site — which has built a team of almost 40,000 citizen reporters — will use the investment to launch a Japanese news site, the first “stepping stone” of the soon-to-be-formed OhmyNews International.:
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003358.php
