News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 72
MEDIA: Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S. Viewers
- Inter Press Service
Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say.
FRANCE: Burqa Ban Keeps Immigration Issue Alive
- Inter Press Service
With the French regional elections coming up in March and a debate on national identity raging, the burqa polemic is keeping the immigration and 'values' issue alive here.
PARAGUAY: Afro-Descendants Affirm Their Identity
- Inter Press Service
Black communities have for the most part remained out of sight and out of mind in Paraguay, but now they are organising and claiming equal economic and social rights, while building an Afro-Paraguayan identity.
ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
- Inter Press Service
When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.
US-CHINA: Spat Escalates Over Internet Freedom
- Inter Press Service
The stern warning given to China by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning internet censorship and responding to allegations that Chinese hackers had accessed Google email addresses has received a pointed response from the Chinese government, raising questions over what the next move will be for Google, the United States, and U.S. firms that do business in China.
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.
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.
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