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AUG 25, 2008
New Pentagon Media Agency Seeks to Fill Top Job
The Washington Post
The Defense Department is looking for an "energetic and imaginative executive" to run its newly formed Defense Media Activity, according to an advertisement on the agency's Web site.
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AUG 21, 2008
Regional Media Hubs Initiative
U.S. Department of State Fact Sheet
More than ever, foreign citizens receive information and form opinions from television. Around the world, access to the rapidly-growing number of stations on satellite television has dramatically increased the range and quantity of news and information. To address the challenges of this new media environment, the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs launched in September 2006, the Regional Media Hubs Initiative, with facilities in Brussels, Dubai, and London.
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AUG 19, 2008
Media Freedom NGO FreeMediaOnline.org Calls for Saving Voice of America Radio to Georgia
Market Watch
FreeMediaOnline.org, a media freedom NGO, has called for saving the Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Georgia from cuts by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and for immediate restoration of VOA Russian broadcast to preserve the ability of Americans to communicate with Russians in times of crisis and during peacetime.
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AUG 18, 2008
Local Win, Global Loss
Russia Profile
The recent conflict in the Caucasus proved that Russia is not ready for global competition. Despite its strengthened political position, resurgent military capabilities, and growing economic power, Russia’s leadership has not yet developed effective mechanisms and strategies to win global recognition of its interests and actions. Russia, instead, interpreted and played this conflict at the only level it is currently capable of -- the military level – showing increased frustration toward Western media instead of recognizing it as a decisive component in the crisis.
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AUG 14, 2008
US Concerned about Hezbollah TV in Indonesia
Associated Press
The U.S. government is concerned that a television channel backed by the Hezbollah militant group is using an Indonesian satellite to broadcast to the Asia-Pacific region, an American Embassy spokesman said Thursday. Al-Manar TV has rented Indonesia's Palapa C2 satellite through operator PT Indosat on a contract due to expire in April 2011, according to Indosat spokeswoman Adita Irawati.
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AUG 14, 2008
One-Sided View of War in Russia
The Heritage Foundation
The end of on-the-air broadcasts of Voice of America couldn’t come at worse time: Russia is providing an utterly skewed and one-sided picture of the war in Georgia domestically, while the Internet has only 15% to 18% penetration, limited primarily to medium and large cities.
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AUG 13, 2008
BBG Should Enhance SW, Not Replace It
Radio News
One million real-time listeners, small by shortwave standards, entail very high cost bandwidth requirements on the Internet. The competition, by start-up bloggers for example, could not possibly afford being on shortwave radio. The business example should be: “Go where your competition can not follow.” The U.S. government can afford shortwave radio.
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AUG 12, 2008
Arab Network To Sample Flavor Of West During Dem Convention
Arizona Central
An estimated 120 million households in 80 countries will get a selective snapshot of the West when Al Jazeera English network pays a visit to Golden for two days during the Democratic National Convention. "Our objective is to present a slice of mainstream America," said Julian Ingle, political program editor for Al Jazeera's Washington bureau.
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JUL 25, 2008
‘Stop Off-Shoring of BBC Hindi Service’
Business Standard
Two British trade unions have launched an online petition as part of their campaign to prevent the BBC from off-shoring jobs and programmes of the Hindi, Urdu and other languages to south Asia..."We believe that the employment conditions being offered exploit journalists in developing nations, and may not give proper protection for their safety, and that the BBC is surreptitiously dismantling the World Service in a way that may damage its editorial credibility."
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JUL 24, 2008
Once Media-Shy Taliban Go High Tech In Propaganda War
Reuters
The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicise their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday...With their own website, magazines, DVDs, audio cassettes, pamphlets and mobile phones, the ICG says, the Taliban are able to capitalise on mistakes made by the government and its allies and reveal their own "inflated tales of battlefield exploits."
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