The times, as Bob Dylan sang in another context, are a’ changin’. Across the Middle East, new television stations, radio stations and websites are sprouting like incongruous electronic mushrooms in what was once a media desert, says "Arab Media" Co-Editor Lawrence Pintak.
The International Communications Forum is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
The changing Arab media landscape
This is supposed to be an intelligent article but all it is is a wodge of Self- praise . . . typical of the dross that comes out of St Anthony's college:
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