Category: media
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The Management of Savagery
I published the CIA’s 1963 torture manual (or ‘interrogation’) the other day on this blog, but in all fairness to deliberation, I should also provide a link to this “The Management of Savagery”. It is a Jihad manual translated in May of this year, about the conflict with the West (note the references to the…
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Taking Sides: Isreal and Lebanon and Galloway
This rather shallow, one-sided, and aggressive analysis of the Israel and Lebanon conflict is interesting; simply because it shows just how irresponsible some members of Parliament and media commentators can be. The conflict in the middle east is complex; yet this man ‘Galloway’ (admittedly I have never heard of him) makes it simple for a…
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Media Analysis of the Big Brother Turkey Slap
The Big Brother ‘ Turkey Slap ‘ incident is an interesting case study of how news travels on the Internet. The traces of this incident, both big media and small, can be found all over the Internet. Micheal Bric, one of the guys at the centre of the media frenzy, was a student of mine…
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Google pays Murdoch $900 Million in a deal with MySpace
Murdoch only bought MySpace a few months ago for US$580 Million, now he has made a deal worth US$900 Million with Google. And this is without even selling MySpace. You do the maths! This is what you call innovation corporate American style (well, Murdoch is an Australian or sorts); let everyone else do the innovation…