links for 2006-11-16

Thursday, 16 November 2006, 18:18

• Philadelphia Inquirer: U.S. indifference dismays Al-Jazeera English anchor
  AJE is available in the United States on satellite network GlobeCast and two Internet-based services. It’s still not available on cable. “It would be naive to think that politics had nothing to do with it,” says Washington anchor Dave Marash.
  (tags: aji aje al-jazeera aljazeera television journalism usa)
• Richard Burton: A little bitch (sorry, pitch) to PRs
  PRs should stop snubbing student journalists, says former Telegraph.co.uk editor Richard Burton. “Aren’t these the very people you’ll be phoning, emailing, and dragging in front of your clients in a few years’ time?”
  (tags: journalism pr education)
• ZDNet UK: Europe unites to keep online video unregulated
  A vote in the Council of Ministers confirms that EU countries will not have to regulate internet video. Whew.
  (tags: video eu avservicesdirective)
• Strange Attractor: Exploding the blog myth
  Kevin Anderson responds to John Humphrys by exploding three common myths about blogs that are being perpetuated by journalists.
  (tags: blogs journalism news opinion comment)
• E-consultancy: Are social news sites like Digg ‘better’ than Google News?
  Perhaps not “better”, but no concession on “faster” — which is pretty important in the online news business.
  (tags: google googlenews digg reddit netscape)

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