Al-jazeera Talks the Case Of the Haatuf News Paper and Sentenced 2 Journalist .Video
Al-jazeera Talks the Case Of the Haatuf News Paper and Sentenced 2 Journalist .Video
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On June 29, ISIL – the insurgent group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – rebranded itself. It is now known as IS, the Islamic State. It made the announced in a video posted on Youtube which also stated its intention to rule the entire Islamic world.
On the ground, IS has made violent advances territorially but is also heavily engaged in a propaganda war on social media that has pitted the rebels against some of their own rivals in IS and al-Qaeda, as well as the governments in Baghdad and Damascus. Elsewhere in the region, state-owned media outlets are providing coverage that echoes their particular government’s own geopolitical interests.
Talking us through the story this week is Jamie Bartlett, a social media analyst at the London-based think tank Demos; Imran Khan, a correspondent at Al Jazeera; media historian Ibrahim Al Marashi and political scientist Fanar Haddad.
hatusThis week’s News Bytes: The prominent Egyptian TV host, Yosri Fouda’s criticism of the new government puts him in the firing line of other news outlets in the country. In Thailand, its phase two of the post-coup media strategy as the military junta creates a body to monitor the news industry; and in Somaliland, a media owner and his editor have been sentenced to three years in prison for publishing stories on government corruption.
In 2007, when Brazil won the right to host the World Cup that is being staged this month, fans everywhere were excited at the prospect of a feast of football in a country with such a rich tradition in the world’s favourite sport. For the Dilma Rousseff government, the added benefit was showing Brazil off to the world. But as the cost of the tournament grew, so did the size of anti-World Cup protests on the streets.
Mainstream media in the country either failed to understand what was unfolding – or there was a reluctance in newsrooms to be critical of an event the government wanted to showcase. So it was left to alternative media start-ups to fill in the gaps. In this week’s feature, the Listening Post’s Gouri Sharma looks at the media legacy of the World Cup.
Most of us are familiar with internet trolls – those individuals who harass online. Most of them seem to hostile by nature and no one really takes them seriously. But there is another, more subtle kind. One who masquerades as a big thinker but who offers up irrelevant statistics and weak arguments. It gave Nick Douglas, the editor of the comedic blog Slacktory, an idea to critique this type of online behaviour. One of his latest entries is called “The Internet Arguer”- a compilation of the catch phrases arguers resort to, to – in their mind – win an argument. With more than 100 000 hits online we made it our Web Video of the Week.
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