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Ulster in Media Spotlight Again – Now Peace Not Conflict

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LOOKING AHEAD, even by just a few days, can be a media opportunity to look back substantially and usefully.

It was no surprise to see this week that the New York Times prefigured next Tuesday’s summit meeting of the G8 countries’ top leaders. It’s the United Kingdom’s turn to host the event, and that government has made a noteworthy choice for its venue — a small Northern Irish town in County Fermanagh with the redolent name of Enniskillen.    Continue reading “Ulster in Media Spotlight Again – Now Peace Not Conflict” »

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New and Old Media’s Shifting Roles After Bombing

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Headlines BostonTHE TERRORIST ATTACK brought out some of the worst, but also much of the best in American journalism. That was true of 9/11/2001. I wish it were true of 4/15/2013 as well.

But sad to say, among all the other aching distress caused by the Boston bombing, its coverage in the major media gave us precious little of American journalism’s best work.     Continue reading “New and Old Media’s Shifting Roles After Bombing” »

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South by Southwest: More Than Money-Making

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“SOUTH BY, to use that rather flat, familial nickname habitués have given their annual festival here, South by Southwest, contrived to be in itself a somewhat flat event this year.

I’m thinking of the Interactive (with all things geeky being considered) and the Film parts of the festival, and not the Music part — which seemed, as it started up later in the week, every bit as wild and crazy as usual.    Continue reading “South by Southwest: More Than Money-Making” »

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Story Repeated a Billion Times Worldwide

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THE MAN HAS earned two big pictures on The New York Times‘ front page … the lead-story position on the BBC‘s World Service, persistently … not to mention endless acres of tabloid coverage in print, on TV and online.

Such is the fate of the once-gloried Olympian Oscar Pistorius, the extraordinary ‘cross-over’ athlete both disabled and able-bodied, since killing his girl-friend Reeva Steenkamp.

The world’s media are having, and will continue to have, an extended field-day with this resonant story from South Africa that comprises so many disturbing layers.      Continue reading “Story Repeated a Billion Times Worldwide” »

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