‘What does online democracy mean?’
Professor Mark Nunes, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. In this inaugural interview in a series on new media and culture, the author of Cyberspaces of Everyday Life discusses the limitations of democracy online and the expectations from Web 2.0.
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The road not taken
Could the Iraq war have been prevented had the American media asked the right questions? How do conservative media commentators frame the actions of different religious communities? Does the media pay due attention to history? Mike Ghouse reflects on the political impact of mainstream media decisions.
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War reporting is dead
It has been shot in the head by ‘embedded journalism’. “Reporting conflicts in foreign lands has become an extension of government justification for the war,” says Phillip Knightley, “rather than the public reality of war.”
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How the media fails India
Media is big business in India. But it largely ignores the voting classes, catering not to the 700 million poor Indians who vote but to the middle class of 300 million who ask ‘Why should I vote?’ Fulbright scholar James Mutti calls for a new model.
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NUJ seeks sensitive reports on immigrants
The UK union of journalists has urged members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues.
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About a war
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq lays bare the psychology of the ongoing self-censorship in the American media. There was not so much a conspiracy of silence about the war as an ideological refusal by the media to listen, see, and ask. Rohit Chopra reviews Greg Mitchell’s book.
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The year of the Post
In which we applaud the Big P-winners, watch Obama muscling in on Osama, hear Sir Peregrine Worsthorne tell on Matthew d’Ancona, chuck a few expletives at Kiyoshi Martinez, and listen to Martin Luther King… Buzz from the web.
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Making media matter
The media has a crucial role in ensuring constitutionalism, pluralism, rule of law, and rights in every democratic society. Would it serve this cause best by an ‘objective’ approach? What the media should do is not chase after hypocritical objectivity, writes Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, but be self-aware and ‘socially engaged’.
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