News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 57
Chinese Dominance in Kenyan Digital Migration Raises Alarm
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 14 (IPS) - Controversy and confusion have marked Kenya’s transition from analogue to digital television in keeping with the 2015 International Telecommunication Union deadline when all analogue signal transmission will cease.Â
Sri Lanka Faces New Year Pressure Over Rights
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Dic 29 (IPS) - When the American Centre in Colombo held a memorial event honouring the late South African President Nelson Mandela, the first few questions at the question and answer session had nothing to do with the great freedom fighter.
Free Expression Still a Mirage for Zimbabwean Artists
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Dic 27 (IPS) - That citizens cannot enjoy democracy if they are ruled by an undemocratic party is the warning that got Cont Mhlanga's play "Members" banned from theatre stages in Zimbabwe in 1985.
Some Cartoons Aren't Funny
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Dic 23 (IPS) - A woman and her husband are seated at a table. As she talks, he seems to be ignoring her, his head hidden behind a newspaper.
Citizen Journalists Take the Lead on Gender Issues
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Dic 14 (IPS) - Twenty-five-year-old Ragae Hammidi of Casa Blanca, Morocco wears two hats. Five days a week, she attends a business school. But on weekends, she is a journalist who goes out on the street with a small camera, shooting videos of people and issues that go untold by professional media outlets.
Kremlin Tightens Grip on Media
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Dic 14 (IPS) - Russia is set to lose one of its few relatively objective news outlets as the Kremlin moves to tighten its grip on the country's media.
Drone Killings Show Numbers, Not Bodies
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dic 09 (IPS) - More than 300 U.S. drone attacks have killed 2,160 militants and 67 civilians in Pakistan since 2008, according to Pakistani defence ministry data. But people living in the affected areas are now questioning these figures, asking why they never get to know the names of the militants or see the bodies.
Peru’s New Cybercrime Law Undermines Transparency Legislation
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Nov 27 (IPS) - A new law against cybercrime that restricts the use of data and freedom of information in Peru clashes with earlier legislation, on transparency, which represented a major stride forward in citizen rights.
Fears Rise of ‘Taliban-Style’ Justice in Syria
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria, Nov 21 (IPS) - Concerns are rising that courts run by Islamic clerics in many of Syria's rebel-held areas may serve as a prelude to Taliban-style justice in what was long a violently repressive but secular state.
Libya’s Fragile Peace Cracks
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Nov 18 (IPS) - Car accident in Omar Mokhtar Avenue in downtown Tripoli. Nobody was injured but there's a bumper hanging off the back of a car. In just a few seconds, a group gathers around.
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