Clinton: "Al Jazeera Is Real News"
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Al Jazeera was gaining more prominence because it offered "real news" -- something she said American media were falling far short of doing. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton said the US was losing the "information war." Other countries and global news outlets, she said, were making inroads into places like the Middle East more effectively than the United States. One of the reasons she cited for this was the quality of channels like Al Jazeera. The channel, she said, was "changing peoples' minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective." US news, she added, was not keeping up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html
Al Jazeera Revolution
It is hard to imagine the revolutions in the Middle East without Al Jazeera. The channel gave a boost to the protesters and was essential in bringing people out. Thanks to Al Jazeera, you can hear the same chants shouted by demonstrators in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Al Jazeera helped save lives and forced international media to act. In Libya, as in Egypt, Al Jazeera has been shaping public opinion, challenging people. Al Jazeera is strongest when it can talk to the people it is covering. Iranians are not watching Al Jazeera. This is why it is so exciting that Al Jazeera will soon have channels in Turkish and Swahili. The Saudis, former Egyptian regime, Gaddafi, and many Arab dictators despise Al Jazeera as do those seen as collaborating with American hegemony or with Israel. Al Jazeera is the new Gamal Abdel Nasser, the nationalist force uniting the Arab world.
http://nirrosen.tumblr.com/post/3446734611/the-unstoppable-revolutionary-power-of-al-jazeera
YouTube now TV station in Italy
YouTube and similar websites will be considered TV stations in Italy, and will be subject to the obligation to publish corrections within 48 hours upon request and not to broadcast content inappropriate for children in certain time slots. The main change is that YouTube and similar sites will be legally responsible of all published content as long as they have any form (even if automated) of editorial control.
La Repubblica via Slashdot
"Continuous stream of traffic"
"One of the most underrated realities about North Korea is its very dynamic relationship with China, and the amount of information that flows across that border. Students; business people; it's a continuous stream of traffic," says Steven Linton, an American aid worker in North Korea. With that traffic come thousands of DVDs, CDs, cellular telephones, used computers and videotapes -- many of them from China and South Korea. Many Koreans in China make a living by setting up satellite TVs at their homes to receive South Korean media. Then, they burn CDs and DVDs of the programs and sell them to North Koreans for a profit. These media are so prevalent inside North Korea now that knowledge about South Korea has become commonplace, says Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in Seoul. Yoo regularly talks to students and refugees from North Korea.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127836840
C-Span puts full archives online
C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the internet. The C-Span Video Library covers 23 years of history and five presidential administrations. The network will announce the completion of the video archives on 17 March 2010. Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is "like being able to google US political history,” said Rachel Maddow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html
Tommy Westphall's Mind
Characters and storylines in television shows often crossover to other shows with guest appearances, spinoffs, or interrelated stories. Tommy Westphall's Mind explains how 282 series are related through one character.
Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the television series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show. Tommy's mind is a tricky thing to decipher. St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series, many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of St Elsewhere, placing them within the same fictional sphere.
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