News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 40
KOSOVO: Dragging Corruption Into the Net
- Inter Press Service
Kosovo youths looking to address issues treated as taboo by mainstream media are taking increasingly to online activism. The new platform is being used particularly to fight high-level corruption.
Community Radio Stations - Lifeline in Disasters
- Inter Press Service
'Community radio stations in Haiti play an indispensable role during catastrophes, and so do women, who can identify the most urgent needs of families during the reconstruction of the country,' said a representative of one of these stations in the Caribbean island nation.
Muslim Americans Foil Terror Threats
- Inter Press Service
A new report on violent extremists in the United States finds that terrorism plots by non-Muslims greatly outnumber those attempted by Muslims, and that Muslim-American communities helped foil close to a third of al Qaeda-related terror plots threatening the country since Sep. 11, 2001.
ARGENTINA: Show Drives Home the Reality of Obesity
- Inter Press Service
'I can't even walk because I run out of breath. Food is my drug,' says a 31-year-old man who weighs 215 kilos. 'I hide to eat; it's something I can't control,' says a 21-year-old woman who weighs 152 kilos.
INDONESIA: Minority Religions Pray For End to Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
Clutching bibles and song leaflets, members of a Protestant church flocked into a one-storey building here, situated next to a new shopping mall on one of the busiest streets in this municipality in Indonesia’s West Java province.
U.N. Journos Decry Move to Torpedo Rent-Free Offices
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is in danger of becoming irrelevant or even non-existent - specifically in the eyes of the developing world - because of a revived proposal to provide office space only to journalists who can afford to pay rent.
CHINA: ‘Why Not A Baby Girl?’ Urban Parents Ask
- Inter Press Service
Although Li Xiaoxue and her husband, Dai Chunlin, are already happy parents to a young boy, they plan to skirt China’s one- child policy by having another baby. And like a growing number of affluent, urban Chinese, their fingers are crossed for a baby girl.
Could Have Danced All Siege
- Inter Press Service
'I'd planned to have my wedding party on a Thursday night, when more people could come, and stay later. But because the Dabke dancers weren't free then, I held it on a Tuesday,' says Mohammed Ghronaim, 27, from Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.
ECUADOR: Diversity in Remembering the Dead
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians are set to visit cemeteries on Tuesday, the traditional 'Día de Finados' (Day of the Deceased). But while city residents tend to spend the day in mourning, for many indigenous peoples it is a day of celebration, of reunion with their ancestors.
U.S. Inmates Exposed to Toxic E-Waste
- Inter Press Service
Past U.S. inmates and prison staff in electronic waste recycling programmes face serious health risks after officials willfully violated health, safety and environmental laws, a new report has found.
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