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Post-conflict media training expensive and ‘naïve’ --- Michael Hedges October 18, 2007 Immediately after the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords ending military and para-military action in Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe and the US rushed in the media specialists. ‘Hate radio’ may not have been invented in Bosnia but through years of conflict it flourished and, against all best efforts, pieces remain today. The international community’s intention was to use media for the good of that devastated civil society. With that end in mind, but hardly in sight, money poured in for equipment, from transmitters to printing presses, and for training. |
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Uzbekistan: What Color is Your Revolution? --- Michael Hedges May 14, 2005 Uzbek president Islam Karimov rules this largest Central Asian country of the former Soviet orbit with an iron hand. After his neighbor in Kyrgyzstan, President Askar Akayev, took flight to Moscow when it looked like protests of his repressive regime would turn him out, Karimov moved to stop suspicious media activity. First to go was the Open Society Institute, the media advocate funded by George Soros. |
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Hot Planet News Media's Hot Button --- Michael Hedges November 3, 2021 - Follow on Twitter News editors follow trends closely, intimately, almost as much as the advertising people. Of course, there is a relationship. People everywhere tune-in, read - not to forget subscribe - according to needs and interests, which are diligently surveyed. Editors regularly scanned digital traffic and social media data for clues to the daily zeitgeist until discovering everything there is fake news. Intuition, then, prevails, at least until the publisher decides. |
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Green media catches a buzz --- Michael Hedges Octobere 15, 2007 The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to environmental activist and former US Vice President Al Gore reinforces media’s power in shaping public debate and public interest. Media interest in global warming and related environmental issues will certainly increase with this new ‘green’ buzz. Coverage, though, remains illusive and divided. |
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