We have talked about the significance of Wikileaks before on this site, but never in rap. And this "raportage" is no joke either, there are some serious points raised.
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The briefcase stuffed with US treasury bonds recently found being carried across the Swiss border by two Japanese businessmen would be huge news, if anyone could explain it - and if it wasn't so damn scary. Bloomberg does its best here - although a lot of it is speculation about what Tom Clancy must think.
At least if you believe everything you read on Twitter, the whole election controversy in Iran is thanks to the power of Twitter to get eyewitness news out fast. Now, due to popular demand, NTT America, the people that host the free service, have postponed maintenance to allow the Twitterati to continue to report from the front line. Although a lot of reporting is about how to get around government censorship - talk about hack journalism. This from The Guardian PDA blog:
Writing on international blog site Global Voices Online, Hamid Tehrani highlighted some of the tweets coming live from the protests including this one from Twitter user Iran09:
"I confirm that there's a Basij [Islamist militia] station around the square and they shot ppl from the roof. #iranelection"
Although many sites including Twitter, Flickr and Facebook are blocked in Iran, Iranians are using proxy servers to route around government-controlled gateways and publish images, video and blog posts about the protests.
For a brief look (and brief is what Twitter is all about) at what is going on, check out: #iranelection It is important to note that there are people even in the US that claim that the election was fair and that official figures reflect opinion polls taken before the election.
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This is his vision for news in Ireland, as outlined in The Guardian (it is also worth scrolling down through the comments, which do much to reveal the Zeitgeist):
"Tendering out to the usual suspects just simply isn't going to work. In the age of the internet, the notion of television itself is as archaic as the word wireless - even if that has been reinvented for the digital age," he says.
"It doesn't mean anything will be exclusively online, but multiplatform news will be required. Also, I don't think there is any way of doing this without working with local newspapers and those kind of agencies."
It is not exactly clear what he means (journalists don't tend to understand these concepts), but we wish him luck.
bob geldof+ media+ news | in media Check out muckety.com to see the links between the people in the (US) news.
Or the characters of the TV series Lost, as the Muckety map below that accompanies this post shows:
All the same, The Guardian's football chalkboards would appear to be a more useful tool, particularly when it comes to resolving difficult pub debates.
