The Beeb has a fairly rational and persuasive analysis of why Google's $1.65-billion purchase of YouTube makes business sense and doesn't mean that we're partying like it's 1999 all over again.
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Tuesday, October 10
Why the YouTube deal doesn't mean the dot-com mania is back
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billdoskoch
on Tue 10 Oct 2006 11:52 PM EDT
'Indispensable old media'
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billdoskoch
on Tue 10 Oct 2006 11:37 PM EDT
An argument for why the work of reporters like Anna Politkovskaya -- and Hadi Anawi Joubouri, Facundo Labata and Ogulsapar Muradova -- matters in an age of blogs and YouTube (H/T to Deb at Cdn. Journalist). more »
The death of investigative journalism in Russia
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billdoskoch
on Tue 10 Oct 2006 12:18 PM EDT
The funeral of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was today. Here is an observation by one of her colleagues:
"There is almost no investigative journalism left in Russia and I think that a lot of people will be scared, many of my colleagues will be afraid when entering their houses," Alexei Venediktov, Head of radio station, "Ekho Moskvy" (Echo Moscow) said Tuesday.
"They will be constantly looking over their shoulders. In this sense, it is an enormous loss and an enormous pressure on journalism in Russia." more »
"The ongoing failure of imagination'
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billdoskoch
on Tue 10 Oct 2006 12:47 AM EDT
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists examines the grim possibility of nuclear terrorism, noting that the failure to prevent 9/11 itself stemmed from a failure of imagination: "A similar failure of imagination leads many today to discount the risk of a nuclear 9/11." more » |
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