Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, Breaking Bad, CBS, Hotfile, Lawrence Lessig, NFL, Robin Thicke, SiriusXM, Time Warner
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Aug 19 – Sept 1
The sale of U.S. cable station Current TV to the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera raises questions about how a foreign network might explain Americans to themselves. Might Al Jazeera provide a foreign lens for Americans to examine themselves? What would that even look like?
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Tags: Al Gore, Al Jazeera, Antoine Berman, cable television, Current TV, Daily Show, Danny Schechter, Fox News, Qatar
Posted in Current Events, Global, Industry, Politics, TV | Comments Off on Current TV, Al Jazeera America, and the Experience of the Foreign
Real life doesn't always have a proper narrative, at least while it's in the process of composing itself.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, big lebowski, Egypt, globalization, revolution, transnational media, Twitter
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on Egypt, why?
Trying to watch itself, Egyptian state TV has lost its collective mind. They have slid into a self-comforting psychosis. They don’t reject reality as much as they simply create a whole new one.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, Egypt, Egyptian state television, Mubarak, reality, television
Posted in Current Events, Politics, TV | Comments Off on Egyptian State TV and the Challenge Posed by Reality
Antenna asks for your take on the place of media in the events in Egypt.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, digital media, Egypt, internet, politics, social media, streaming, TV, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in What Do You Think? | Comments Off on What Do You Think: Protests in Egypt