Remember why Dennis Potter called Rupert Murdoch ‘a cancer on society’:
In other words, all this stuff out of News Corp. is the real, unfiltered thing: retro, primitive, weird, reactionary, racist, paranoid, really, really old-guy stuff.
Indeed, the Islamic center controversy says as much about the internal goings-on at News Corp. as it does about the plight of Muslims in America.
(Via Michael Tomasky.)
Rupert Murdoch (a cancer on society) and Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal plan to launch an Arabic television news channel.
(Via The Gulf blog.)
interesting that they plan on calling it al-Hurra. wasn’t the first kitten network enough?
What do you make of this?
The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription website.
I can only think of one newspaper I might pay money to subscribe to on the internet; since many news sites like the BBC and Guardian say they will keep content free, I wonder why anyone should pay if their aim is to look for news unless what they want is analysis and more feature length reporting.
I don’t think we’re at the end of this process the next evolutionary change in media. This is most probably just the opening volley in another round of renegotiation between content producers, distributors and consumers.
This week on MMW, we laud Shahina Siddiqui’s idea of “true Muslim society”, look at South Africa’s Muslim Personal Law bill and its media characterization, harp on the Guardian’s coverage of Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, and like up all the news that’s fit to print…about Muslim women.
The antithesis of “blog outreach”: A movement is afoot for newspapers to again start charging for online content. Elsewhere, an article with the home page title of “I’m the reason so many newspapers are dying” says bloggers “are essentially parasites,” which assumes that bloggers bring nothing of value to the newspapers. Pardon my petulance but fine, I’ll just take my Google link-love elsewhere when the pay wall goes up.
That’s what they needed to do years and years ago. It’s too late to start charging for online content now, and it’s too late for newspapers to save themselves.
Preach on, brother. I have no sympathy for the print megaliths who A) didn’t see this coming and b) can’t hack it now that it’s here. Revenue models are changing. Information distribution is changing. You’re either on the bus or you’re off; there are no points for bitching about the fare.
Salam, everybuddy! Sorry I’ve been absent these last few weeks; no good reason, just laziness.
This week, we take a look at how a South African Muslim magazine has been revitalized by its new female editor, how a Canadian immigrant uses women’s bodies to prove the “I’m not like them!” spiel, how the Financial Times gets sidetracked in its story about Dubai horse-racing, how a Canadian documentary looks at Indian Muslims, and at the misplaced concern generated by the video of the girl being whipped in Pakistan. Plus: LINKS!
Better late than never!
Last week on MMW, we review Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book Ten Things I Hate About Me, look at Daisy Khan & Irshad Manji’s debate on CNN about Geert Wilders’ move Fitna, give the side-eye to Sally Armstrong’s mission for Afghan women, reprimand Sports Illustrated for their coverage of talented basketballer Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir, give the short-n-sweet review of American East, and link and link and link.
This week on MMW, we announced AQSAZINE’s launch, highlighted an Arab arts festival in D.C., informed journalists about how they should REALLY write about Muslims, took issue with the Washington Times’ framing of the recent data on Muslim Americans, and examined Amours Voilees’ representations of love and the veil. I also sort of phoned it in on the Friday Links.
This week we heard about the experiences of Muslim women visiting the U.S. Capitol, satirized the fight for Aqsa Parvez’s gravestone, rolled our eyes at the assertions that hijab make make us sick, critiqued the Muslim in America Experiment, and linked our hearts out. We also provided daily updates regarding the Aasiya Hassan murder, and tomorrow, we’ll be having a roundtable discussion on the issue.
It’s a little late, but here’s last week’s MMW roundup: we look at the new Lebanese glossy Jasad, examine coverage of the CIA agent and the women he raped, review Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu’s The Shadow Speaker, critique the coverage of women in Iraqi elections, take a look at Iranian women thirty years after the Revolution, review a new Middle Eastern lifestyle magazine, and LINK IT UP!
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Null 2:05 am on August 24, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
So good.