Sunday 10 January 2010
News - A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics - NYT
Published: January 9, 2010
In the fall of 2008, Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, went to his boss, Rupert Murdoch, with two complaints: he had heard that Mr. Murdoch was considering endorsing Barack Obama for president in The New York Post, and he had read a book excerpt in Vanity Fair suggesting that Mr. Murdoch was sometimes embarrassed by the right-leaning Fox News.
to read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html?ref=business Saturday 09 January 2010
Blog link: Excellent piece about media use of Guantanamo returnee claims (by Dan Froomkin)
Rubicon on this year's MeCCSA conference
The annual MeCCSA conference (6-8 Jan) took place at the excellent new conference facilities at LSE and was hosted with panache by Sonia Livingstone and her team. Despite the snow the conference went ahead but suffered a serious dropout rate. The organizers had to do some quick footwork to rearrange panels.
Star improviser was Goldsmith’s Nick Couldry who filled a sudden and large plenary vacancy. It was very much Goldsmith’s year. Some of the best sessions came from the Goldsmith’s research team whose recent publication is impressive. One of the best seminars was all but the last, with Goldsmith’s Des Freedman & Natalie Fenton and Brunel’s Julian Petley. [
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Blog Link: Now we must hear from Goodman and Mulcaire over phone-hacking scandal - Greenslade
Truth has to be extracted from News International bit by painful bit over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.The company's senior executives, past and present, have refused to come clean, even in front of political committees and rolling cameras. Now, suddenly, we discover that its former royal editor, Clive Goodman - the man jailed for hacking - received a generous pay-off because it failed to follow its own employment practices.
to read more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jan/08/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-newsoftheworld Friday 08 January 2010
Blog Link for Global L - Libel Tourism
Folks,
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) has just published a report on libel tourism written by our own Drew Sullivan. This is a VERY important topic, it has come up at conferences in Holland, Jordana and the UK (of course) in the last year. Here's the URL for the report:
http://cima.ned.org/reports/libel-tourism-silencing-the-press-through-transnational-legal-threats-2.html
And may you all have a great New Year despite such things.
Yours
Mark Lee Hunter
Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow, INSEAD
Docteur en Sciences de l'Information de l'Université de Paris 2
Portable: (+33) [0]6 27 81 00 87
