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UN LEBANON REPORT PROMPTS WALL-TO-WALL LIVE COVERAGE ON AL JAZEERA
OCT 25, 2005 - 1:33PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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WASHINGTON -- Oct. 22

Thursday night was a big night for Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language television news channel in the Middle East.

The preemptive lead story was the release of the UN report on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon.

For most news organizations, it was a story worth at best three or four news reports. At Al Jazeera, editors decided this was the only story of the night.

When the report was released, Al Jazeera's UN correspondent went to a small studio and read the report. On camera. All 54 pages of it. It... FULL TEXT
 
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PRIORITY FOR KAREN HUGHES: GET REPORTERS OUT OF BAGHDAD
AUG 25, 2005 - 1:38PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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As Karen Hughes begins to settle into her new office, she must see that one priority for U.S. public diplomacy is to get reporters out of Baghdad.

No, not get reporters out of Iraq: Just get them out of their bureaus in the capital.

The consensus of U.S. journalists in Baghdad is that it is just too dangerous to get out into the countryside, where they could report on what is happening - good and bad. But reporting what is happening - good and bad - should provide the world with a more complete picture of what the U.S. is... FULL TEXT
 
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AUSTRALIA, NZ FOCUS ON US BY LOOKING AT US MEDIA
JUL 14, 2005 - 1:44PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III

LOS ANGELES, July 13 - Nothing fascinates media as much as, well, media.

That is the lasting impression after an extended visit to New Zealand and Australia, which boast world-class commercial, public service and international broadcasters and first-rate newspapers. But looking at America through South Pacific lenses, the focus more often than not seemed on American media.

Coverage of the U.S. debate over and involvement in Iraq was a case in point: Stories about the policy debate or even events in Iraq were sot news, typically short items on the latest White House statement or pictures of the car bomb... FULL TEXT
 
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THE VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER: IT’S MORE CRUISE THAN HUGHES
JUL 12, 2005 - 1:47PM PDT
Posted by Adam Clayton Powell III
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WASHINGTON, July 12 - There's truly no business like show business.

That old song title was reinforced during a recent visit to Australia and New Zealand, where coverage of the U.S. was frequent, detailed and prominently played. But the lens through which America was presented to the South Pacific was not Wall Street or Capitol Hill.

Day in and day out, coverage of Washington is trumped by coverage of Hollywood. True, the latest news from the White House merits a news spot or a brief story on the inside international news page. But it's Hollywood that gets the big play,... FULL TEXT
 
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CHINA TAPS NEWS MEDIA, RESTRICTS INTERNET AS P.D. TOOLS DURING DISPUTE WITH JAPAN
APR 27, 2005 - 2:50PM PDT
Posted by Peter Herford
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Two recent developments in China point to the tools of media and public opinion control available to the Chinese government and how they are used.

Most recently, Japan-China relations have deteriorated on the heels of an old dilemma: How Japan handles history.

In 1937-38 during the war between China and Japan, Nanjing was the scene of a genocidal slaughter of about 300,000 Chinese. It was hardly a secret. Many nations condemned the event. The Japanese, hardly beloved after their invasion of Manchuria in 1931, were reviled. What has come to be known as the Rape of Nanjing has never been... FULL TEXT
 
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