News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 64
PHILIPPINES: Presidential Bets Perform To Woo Voters: Lynette Lee Corporal* — Asia Media Forum
- Inter Press Service
Often described as too square and boring, Philippine presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III reaches out to the music-television generation as a smiling, hip-hop rapper in his television advertisement.
ARGENTINA: Football Violence Flares Up Ahead of World Cup
- Inter Press Service
'Your president is willing to confront the wildest hordes of opponents, but not a football fan, ever,' Argentine President Cristina Fernández once joked.
ARTS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Dancers Can Fill Granaries
- Inter Press Service
'Some said, how can women dancers tell us about climate change? Some said, how can dancers talk about planting trees? Others asked, how can women dancers build schools? But now the government says a drum has managed to fill our granaries, a dancer has managed to build schools.'
ARGENTINA: Homemade Portraits of Life Behind Bars
- Inter Press Service
'I wanted to take a self-portrait, and I thought about keeping a straight face, but it came out all weird, with these very long arms,' says Liliana Cabrera about the photo she took with a camera she made herself, out of a condensed milk tin, at a workshop in an Argentine prison.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Indigenous Groups Still Say No to Gov’t ‘Help’
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t want to have any part of this. We want to move out of it so we have a bit of freedom and be able to determine our own future,' says Richard Downs, an elder of the Alyawarra people of central Australia.
HAITI: Artists Join UN to Rebuild Cultural Life
- Inter Press Service
As international donors prepare to meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss ways to rebuild Haiti, after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the country’s artistic community has been mobilising to make culture a key aspect of reconstruction.
US-CHINA: Google Puts Ball in Beijing's Court
- Inter Press Service
Internet users in China are reporting varying degrees of censorship on Google search results after the company moved its Chinese operation out of mainland China.
BRAZIL: Bringing the Multicoloured Soul of the Favela to Life
- Inter Press Service
The 'favelas' or shanty towns of Brazil are a uniform red ochre, the colour of unplastered brick walls. But two visual artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun, a facelift intended to showcase the colourful soul of these poverty-stricken neighbourhoods.
CUBA: Replica Slave Ship Drops Anchor amidst Debate on Racism
- Inter Press Service
A replica of the historic Cuban slave ship Amistad, which was taken over by the Africans aboard in 1839, is visiting Cuba, where academics and community leaders have begun to publicly debate the problem of racial discrimination that has not been stomped out in Cuban society.
SRI LANKA: Attack Over ‘Offensive’ Music Video Revives Old Fears
- Inter Press Service
Anger against the popular rap and hip-hop singer Akon, whose music video has footage of bikini-clad women dancing near a Buddha statue, may have been just a ruse used in this week’s attack on a private media house in Sri Lanka, media advocates fear.
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