News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 118
Q&A: 'Political Conversations Are Now on Steroids'
- Inter Press Service
Andrew Rasiej hurriedly gets off the phone, explaining that he was talking to Arianna Huffington, founder of uber-website The Huffington Post. She just published a new book, and Rasiej was providing ideas on how to use social media to promote it.
MEXICO: Artists Push 'Other' Bicentennial Viewpoint
- Inter Press Service
'The homeland is not the flag / the anthem is not the country / that is just the varnish / that adorns the outside,' states a poem written in Spanish by artist Enrique Cisneros in reference to Mexico's ongoing bicentennial celebrations.
AFRICA: Services Should Only be Liberalised If Properly Regulated
- Inter Press Service
With African countries' trade remaining inordinately dependent on natural resources exports, their economies could benefit from liberalisation of trade in services but only as long as proper domestic regulatory frameworks are put in place, some trade experts argue.
Activists Warn of Rights Crisis Ahead of Ahmadinejad Visit
- Inter Press Service
Speaking at a press conference in New York Friday, Shirin Ebadi, a highly-regarded Iranian attorney and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, warned that the human rights situation in Iran is deteriorating, particularly for the many journalists and civil society activists considered political prisoners.
CARIBBEAN: Still Fighting HIV Stigma After 30 Years
- Inter Press Service
An inescapable fact of living in societies that are as small and highly personalised as those in the Caribbean is that information travels very quickly and not always very accurately.
JAMAICA: Broadcast Ban Forces Cleanup of 'Murder Music'
- Inter Press Service
A government-led crackdown on violent and explicit sexual lyrics seems to have stalled reggae music's 20-year slide into what has been dubbed 'murder music'.
EUROPE: Roma Conference Decries Government-Led Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
Over the centuries, racism in the Americas has targeted indigenous peoples, African slaves and their descendants, while in Europe, secular racism has long centred on its once-enslaved gypsies, as their recent persecution in France and Italy confirms.
CHINA: Journalists Risk Their Lives to Expose Corruption
- Inter Press Service
Despite what are often overwhelming obstacles, a gutsy minority of investigative reporters in China continues to expose official corruption and criminal behaviour. But they do so at their own peril.
Biking Across the Americas, Spotlight on Children
- Inter Press Service
Damián López, of Argentina, has been riding his bicycle the length of the Americas for the past three years. His mission? In addition to completing the long journey, he wants to shine the spotlight on children who are at risk due to violence or abandonment.
PAKISTAN: Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out
- Inter Press Service
When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
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