CNN correspondent Emily Chang tells of being detained for two hours by Chinese police after she bought a souvenir tshirt featuring Barack Obama in a Red Army uniform.
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False praise for that lunatic and bastard Bob Plasto
Filmmakers Leonard Lee and David Millikan recall what it was like working with the late Bob Plasto. Perhaps not as glowing as other reviews of the filmmaker.
How Ted Turner lost CNN, Jane Fonda and $7 billion
An interview with (former) media mogul Ted Turner, who says he feels “like a dummy” for selling his cable TV channels, which are now worth billions, but he doesn’t have enough cash to get back into the media business.
White House doesn’t wear the Fox hat
Travelling through the US, Simon Burrow reports on the battle of Fox News vs. the White House. Has open war broken out between old and new media?
Pants on fire: Fox News vs. CNN
Fox News recently took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post, claiming all other news networks failed to cover recent right-wing protests in DC. CNN was not amused. Things have gone downhill from there…
CNN’s Rick Sanchez: You lie, Fox News!
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez hits back hard at Fox News’ claims the network didn’t cover the 9/12 Tea Party protests in Washington.
Syndicated news goes A La Carte
CNN’s wire service, CNN Wire, is now offering newspaper editors the chance to buy individual stories for syndication — at $199 a pop. It’s like ordering off a menu instead of hiring a personal chef.
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself (and Time Warner)
YouTube will now be able to legally show clips of shows from CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TNT and Time Warner Television thanks to a new deal made with Time Warner. Full length episodes won’t be available though.
Cable news reaches new lows with “beer summit” countdown
US cable news networks love a good gimmick — especially if it involves the shameless use of over-the-top graphics and animations — but MSNBC and CNN took the cake today, with both networks running live countdown clocks to Obama’s over-hyped “beer summit”.
CNN respond to #CNNFail criticism
CNN have responded to widespread criticism on Twitter that they failed to adequately cover the post-election riots in Iran with a highlights package of exactly what they did cover.
It’s not easy being green: the Iran election tweeted
How the Twitterverse captured the drama in Tehran.
Military attorney: Waterboarding just the “tip of the iceberg”
A military attorney who represented a former Guantanamo detainee tells CNN that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of torture in the prison.
Twitter goes down, CNN’s Rick Sanchez freaks out
Twitter went down for some scheduled maintenance during CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s show. He didn’t cope too well.
CNN struggles on the middle path
With Fox and MSNBC veering to the right and left respectively, CNN are struggling to pull the ratings by steering a middle ideological path.
The death of journalism excellence
Journalism isn’t dead — but it’s not very good, either.
Media briefs: ITV to deliver Murdoch/Sky killer blow?
The Murdochs and BSkyB have already taken a bath on the 17.9% of ITV they bought a couple of years ago: But could ITV be about to deliver a killer blow to Sky and Murdoch?
And the Wankley Award goes to… the CNN hologram
The US election produced many a bizarre media moment but the moment of triumph, the froth on a cold one, came via CNN’s “hologram” technology during Wednesday’s coverage of Election Day, writes”Simon Huggins.
Media briefs: Capital punishment for all the kids, Bud Light swear jar…
Capital punishment for all the kids… Herald Sun demonstrates hanging… Bud Light swear jar…
Media briefs and TV ratings
What have Seven got planned for Saturday night? … Another ratings endorsement for Kevin07 … Kostakidis has settled, now for Stan the Man? … Last night’s TV ratings.
Errington: Both sides dragging the chain on the internet
This was supposed to be the internet election. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell Australia’s major political parties. writes Wayyne Errington.
Bombing Iran – is the US getting serious?
The term “pre-emptive strike” is once again being bandied about in the US as momentum around the Iran debate builds off the back of controversial Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the US.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
While bad things are still perpetrated by bad regimes, one important thing has changed for obnoxious despots — they can’t hide their bastardry from the rest of the world any more.
Gerald Stone and the death of Mary Kostakidis
Plenty of publicity today about the position of SBS newsreader, Mary Kostakidis with a report in The Australian saying she is going to sue. And there has been plenty of comment as well about those responsible for this situation happening, writes Glenn Dyer.
Justice Spender: Why Haneef got his visa back
Justice Jeffrey Spender, awarding victory today to Dr Mohamed Haneef in his fight to have his 457 visa reinstated, concludes:
Justice Jeffrey Spender, awarding victory today to Dr Mohamed Haneef in his fight to have his 457 visa reinstated, concludes: “In my opinion … the test which the Minister applied was not the test called for by s 501(6)(b). As the result of this misconception as to what the exercise of the statutory power entailed, there was a purported, but not a real exercise of the power conferred by s 501(3).”
