News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 149
CULTURE-INDIA: Globalised Ice Cream Please, Big Scoop
- Inter Press Service
'Passport Please.' That's what everyone thought they'd ask if you queued up at that exclusive new ice cream shop in one of those smart new malls of fashionable south Delhi.
HAITI: Sending Hope over the Airwaves
- Inter Press Service
Throughout the Port-Au-Prince earthquake's aftermath, the voices of many Port-Au-Prince radio stations have been loud and clear.
MEDIA: Slovakia Tightens the Gag
- Inter Press Service
Fears are growing for media freedom in Slovakia amid warnings that the country's public television station has become a propaganda tool for the government ahead of elections this year.
COSTA RICA: Last-Ditch Leftwing Alliance to 'Save' the Country
- Inter Press Service
Political forces on the left in Costa Rica have formed a partial last-minute alliance to support Ottón Solís, the presidential candidate for the centre-left Citizens' Action Party (PAC), in a bid to counter the conservative lead that the polls predict for the upcoming Feb. 7 elections.
U.S.: Clinton Criticises China over Internet Censorship
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Thursday laying out the Barack Obama administration's position on internet freedom, and publicly called on Chinese authorities to investigate the security breaches which preceded last week's decision by Google to end its cooperation with Chinese internet censorship.
LAOS: Getting Women in the News Takes Much More than Policy
- Inter Press Service
Women’s empowerment may be a key policy of the Lao government, but this is far from obvious in this South-east Asian country’s newspapers and publications, many of which usually give more space to government pronouncements by male officials and pass on questionable stereotypes of women in their reportage.
RIGHTS: Defenders Under Sustained Attack Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
Abusive governments around the world escalated their attacks against local human rights defenders and other independent monitors during 2009, according to the 2010 edition of Human Rights Watch's annual 'World Report' released here Wednesday.
SOUTH SUDAN: Changing of the Guard
- Inter Press Service
An old rite is long overdue in Paul Yugusak Tombe’s home village, in Central Equatoria State, south Sudan.
ZAMBIA: Scarcely Room for Women in Male-dominated Politics
- Inter Press Service
Charity Mwansa, a former minister and member of parliament, knows just exactly what being one of the very few female politicians in Zambia means. When she left politics it had nothing to with not being able to do the work and instead had everything to do with the mad world of male-dominated politics.
AUSTRALIA: Annual Festival Offers a Glimmer of Human Connectedness
- Inter Press Service
In a world beset with conflict, natural disasters and economic crisis, the 2010 Sydney Festival has been a celebration of human connectedness, bringing together 1,500 artists from 30 countries, performing to an audience of a million over a period of three weeks, beginning on Jan. 9.
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