Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
well after all that drama, tasneem was released around 24 hours of his arrest...thank goodness! questions still remain unanswered and clearly it was a close shave..will the next journalist/critic of power be so lucky? the whole issue of media censorship can't be ignored and the big thing of course is ...
Posted in Bangladesh, Blogging, Media, Military Rule, News & info, Tasneem Khalil, censorship | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
via Pickled Politics ( thanks Sunny!)
"Prominent journalist and fellow blogger Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the military police in Bangladesh, a serious attack on press freedom in the country.
An editor and outspoken journalist for the English daily newspaper Daily Star, he also worked for CNN and Human Rights ...
Posted in Activism, Bangladesh, Democracy, Human Rights, Media, Media freedom, Military Rule, Politics, Power, World Affairs: politics and news | 9 Comments »
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
I've been following the collaborative blog Pickled Politics for a while and I now am contributing through my own diary page on the site - the oh-so-creatively named ..Sonia's Diary.
Incidentally, Pickled Politics has been nominated for the New Statesman's New Media Awards 2006 - under the 'Contributing to Civic Society' ...
Posted in Blogging, Global Civil Society, Media, News & info, UK | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
ah well no surprises there: the 'official' google blog doesn't allow comments.
Posted in Blogging, Google, Media, News & info | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 21st, 2006
The 'first broadband environment channel' - green.tv has been online since the start of the month, and busy racking up the hits and enjoying lots of media attention. Backed by the UNEP, designed by large blue in collaboration with the espians, {featuring the first application of the ‘Protoplex’}, green.tv ...
Posted in Cool Stuff, Europe, Media, News & info, Technology, UK | 7 Comments »
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
aha, well the guardian has finally clearly lost its patience with the 'wayward' contributors to its very popular News Blog and have finally introduced comment registration. previously, any old so- and-so could have come along and written any old thing ( and did). And it was wonderfully amusing, precisely because ...
Posted in Blogging, Media, News & info | 7 Comments »