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The Director of POLIS comments on international journalism, media and society
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Posted on Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 02:48 AM
We live in a world where we can watch disasters and suffering unfold around the world. New technologies mean that every war, every famine, every hurricane can be covered live and direct. But do we actually notice what is happening to those involved? Polis Summer School student Andrea Abril has been thinking through the moral [...]...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 09:58 AM
Radovan Karadzic, co-architect of the Bosnian genocide of the early 1990s, and war crimes tribunal fugitive for the past 13 years, is finally under arrest. Polis Summer School student Doug Sarro reports. Not that he was ever all that hard to find. The problem for the Serb security forces responsible for catching him was political - [...]...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Popbitch may not be the biggest celebrity gossip website in the world but it is one of the most interesting. Founder/boss Camilla Wright came to talk to the Polis Summer School, which in itself is an unusual assignment for a showbusiness journalist. Popbitch does something quite simple. It gathers gossip from readers, publicists, hangers-on and the stars [...]...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 02:32 AM
Like all successful media chaps, Iain Dale is now often criticised as a careerist hack. But what's wrong with some enterprising ambition? Iain has not lost faith with the Internet, despite his shift into magazine publishing. Totalpolitics is not a rip-roaring read but as a trade magazine for political apparatchiks it might survive. I am glad that he [...]...
Posted on Monday July 21, 2008 at 03:21 PM
In an era in which information is often confused with entertainment, global criminals have learned how to send their messages to society. And nobody has done it better than Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.   Carlos Franganillo, a POLIS Summer School student, reports.   Before 9/11 nobody could imagine that a terrorist group would be able to destroy [...]...
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