Posts Tagged with ‘CNN’

I just got an email from Livestation, a website for high quality live TV streaming and radio online about the move that might help some people get better news from Mumbai if they don’t want to rely on Twitter for their news from the terrorist attacks site. Various sources mentioned today that probably the best TV coverage of the events in Mumbai is offered by CNN IBN, an Indian partner of CNN.
It is no surprise that after all the recommendations [...]

There’s a very funny story today that seems to prove to me that lack of fact checking and attention to details should not be discussed as a fault only bloggers should be accused of as it looks like even huge and reputable media organizations like CNN sometimes make mistakes that seem to be absolutely inappropriate - especially for them.
Yesterday some of you may have heard a story about alleged gunfire from South Ossetia directed at the motorcade carrying the Presidents [...]

Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presumably organized by Russia (and I have already claimed that I believe the Russian hackers really did not need any special request to get started with the DDoS attack), I thought I’d mention another aspect of the situation that is remotely related to this one and proves my point again.
A Russian-language blog reports today another story about Russian bloggers [...]

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories.
Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will have no one vetting the content. Instead, it will be a wide-open format, and they've been marketing the new site to its frequent submitters. In [...]

Nokia, in an attempt to make itself well-established presence in mobile world steadily increasing in on-the-go entertainment options and provisions as far as choice of content is concerned, has announced the addition of CNN and Sony Pictures to its list of media partners.
Both join the big name providers YouTube and Reuters as contracted suppliers of videos to the mobile phone company’s list of media-friendly devices, known as the N Series line.
As the terms mobile and media [...]

The day has come. YouTube is to co-host, in partnership with CNN, a presidential debate tonight between all eight hopefuls for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination. It will be broadcast on CNN at 7pm EST from the city of Charleston in South Carolina.
According to YouTube’s figures, “more than 2,000 online videos were submitted to the site for consideration for the event,” of which CNN will determine two to three dozen fit for playback to all candidates present at [...]

CNN and YouTube are to be the joint presenters of a US presidential debate in “unprecedented” format come July 23rd. That’s a Monday. Mark your calendars.
If the last group of CNN-hosted debates for both the Democratic and Republican parties are any indication, there’s a good chance the loose enforcement of the objectives of what we human beings call “debate” will continue. Of course, when there’s more than half a dozen candidates on stage trying to hammer out [...]

Still an option undesired by all major satellite and cable television corporations in the US, Al Jazeera English has been living its first months as a 24-hour news channel inside America almost solely within the computer monitors of channel subscribers.
In addition to traditional broadcast methods, AJE streams both freely and at a cost to the viewer online, depending on the choice of video resolution. (Free looks bad.) Its streams have proven somewhat popular, though Al Jazeera hardly registers numbers [...]

I Predict News Junkies And Plenty Of Them! 
U.S. teachers are utilizing Internet news more than any other source in presenting news to their students. Fifty seven percent of teachers use Internet based news. A study based on news use in the classroom surveyed 1,262 teachers in grades 5-12 in the fall of 2006. The study was released Monday by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education.
These numbers compare to 31 percent teacher use of television news and 28 [...]