ABC Drum Editor Jonathan Green obviously touched a nerve when he argued that “The media is not there to help. It does not feel your pain”
His views have been echoed by other bloggers such as @MrDenmore and Jonathan Powles or Tammi Jonas in Crickey. They are mainly denouncing the indecency of a form of ‘porn [...]
UK’s love affair with banks has been a long story
Big provider of jobs and wealth, the finance industry has traditionally been the poster child of post industrial UK. This heroic status goes back a long way. You might remember in the movie Mary Poppins the scene where the admiral asks Mr. Banks “how things are in [...]
(This is a loose and abridged translation of the original piece from Grégoire Fleurot published in French in slate.fr)
Since the demonstrations in Iran last year Twitter has become an increasingly important tool for activists needing to “get the message out”. Its key feature being to limit messages to 140 characters, whatever the alphabet we use, it [...]
So the Egyptians did it. Hosni Mubarak became the second Arab dictator to be ousted in as many months. As the army takes over it is still too soon to know if a general in a suit has simply been replaced by a general in a uniform.
Europa and America in the commentary box
What is becoming [...]
The name of Antonio Ibanez of the city of Springfield, Massachusetts might not be familiar, but what he is about to do the US banking industry could have been written by the script-writers of The Simpsons series.
Unless the banks pull a magic trick or get help from some form of divine intervention, the scenario they [...]
On 1st February 2011 the Australian independent online media newmatilda.com relaunched after a successful fundraising campaign, which enabled them to overcome the withdrawal of their main sponsor in 2010.
It was a small but important victory in the on-going epic Pulitzerian battle of independent quality media against the expansion of junk journalism favoured by a 24 hour news-cycle [...]
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