Reporting a massacre … and beating the lies
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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THIS WEEKEND BRINGS a piquant moment for me - a telling anniversary in the chronicles of information-management, as well as a horrifying memory in itself. At 4.10 pm on Sunday afternoon exactly forty years ago I witnessed soldiers shooting innocent civilians dead, an atrocity that officialdom instantly lied about - and provoked a four-decade struggle to get the truth finally established. more >>
New vs Old again, but Old may still win
Thursday, January 19, 2012
THEY LINED UP in familiar opposing ranks. On one side Rupert Murdoch, sounding crustier than ever now that he tweets ... the Motion Picture Association of America (which of course includes Murdoch's 20th Century Fox studios) ... and other traditional media conglomerates like NBC Universal. more >>
Cyber threats - fraudsters and warmongers
Thursday, January 12, 2012
THANK YOU, DIGITAL REVOLUTION! You've given us many benefits, to be sure, but now this. We are living, apparently, at the mercy of people with the manners of a chimpanzee and the tongue of a Sicilian fishwife. more >>
DAVID TERESHCHUK has published THE MEDIA BEAT every Thursday since October 2004. He has written widely for international publications, including The New York Times, and before that The Guardian, The Observer and the New Statesman in London.
THE MEDIA BEAT began as a weekly column in Tribune Newspapers' AM New York newspaper before going entirely online in 2006.
On television Tereshchuk has been a correspondent and anchor, and made American and British network documentaries shot in many countries around the world. He has also acted as a media adviser - across all media platforms - to corporations, non-profit organizations and the United Nations.
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