No ano do porco, falemos de porcos...
China: TV bane imagens de porcos para não ofender muçulmanos (...).
Artigo completo no Diário Digital.
European bloggers
France has nearly 1 million bloggers, making it the most active European country in terms of the Internet personal Web sites, a new study published by the US firm Forrester Research showed this week.
Still, only 3 percent of Europe's estimated 130 million Internet users create blogs, it said, adding that most of the bloggers were in France, Italy, and Spain. (...)
Full article in Middle East Times.
New TV channel for the Portuguese-speaking communities
Canal de Língua Portuguesa (CLP TV), a satellite TV channel based in Paris and dedicated to Portuguese-speaking communities throughout Europe, will be launched on November 25.
CLP TV will offer general entertainment content 24 hours a day, including information, debates, movies, soaps, Portuguese language lessons, music programmes and sports. According to its director, António de Morais Cardoso, 80 per cent of the programming will be transmitted in Portuguese, while foreign programs will be subtitled. (...)
Full article in ATV's News Archive.
"Insolent" question?
A Dominican journalist was fired yesterday after Armed Forces minister Ramon Aquino complained about a question that the reporter made to the cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez.
Adolfo Salomón, who has worked in the local television station "Color Vision” for 8 years, told the press that he was dismissed after Aquino sent a letter to that company, complaining about a question from Salomón recently asked to Lopez Rodriguez, asking to comment on the issue of homosexuals in the Dominican catholic Church. The prelate reacted angrily calling the reporter "insolent". (...)
Full article in Dominicane Today.
... any expected guest that God might send would be greated with a hot meal, a hot stove, and a roomful of good-hearted people staring stupidly at a television.
Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book, p. 124
"Social danger"
Guillermo Espinosa Rodríguez of the Agencia de Prensa Libre Oriental (APLO), an independent news agency, was sentenced by a court in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on 6 November to two years of house arrest for being a “danger to society.” Espinosa was brought before the court after being held for 12 days at Department 21 of the state security police. (...)
Full article: Reporters without borders.
Istanbul Independent Media Forum
This weekend Istanbul will be hosting the Istanbul Independent Media Forum at Bilgi university. Important speakers from all over the world will be attending this event which lasts for two days at the Dolapdere campus.
Participants to the Istanbul International Independent Media Forum call the governments and mainstream media and independent and local media across the globe to take action for their particular part to ensure the peoples enjoy their right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of access to information.
Event website here (turkish and english).