News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 97
MIDEAST: Political Clouds Hang Over UNESCO Selection
- Inter Press Service
With only a few days left before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) nominates final candidates for the post of director-general, controversy continues to swirl around the leading contender, Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni.
CHILE: Study Shows How Leading Paper Colluded with Dictatorship
- Inter Press Service
The coverage of human rights violations cases by the powerful conservative Chilean newspaper El Mercurio during the country’s 17-year dictatorship was the focus of a meticulous study by five young reporters.
TRADE-US: Green Groups Say E-Waste Bill Is Too Lax
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists are expressing discontent over recently introduced legislation regarding the U.S.’s exporting of electronic waste, or 'e-waste'.
CHINA-EU: Summit Redefines Diplomatic Boundaries
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis has helped China and the European Union mend their recent rift over Tibet and human rights, but the two sides remain distrustful of each other’s intentions. Beijing complains that the EU’s crowded agenda makes it lose sight of the bigger picture in dealing with China. Brussels for its part, believes China is exploiting the EU’s divisions and treating the 27-state bloc with ‘diplomatic contempt’ on a range of issues from trade to the Dalai Lama.
POLITICS: At East-West Crossroads, Turkey Presses Ambitious Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Two soaring bridges link Asia and Europe in this historic city, which straddles the two continents.
ARGENTINA: Blogs a Shortcut to Fame?
- Inter Press Service
While many are still warning that the Internet will do away with reading, unknown writers in Argentina who have joined the global trend of blogging are winning prizes around the world and watching their online writings turn into books, plays and television screenplays.
LITERATURE: Mario Benedetti, the Most Beloved of Uruguayan Writers
- Inter Press Service
The literary oeuvre of Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, who died Sunday night, is enormous and diverse, comprising dozens of books of poetry, songs, novels, short stories, chronicles, essays, plays and humour. As he himself used to joke: 'The only thing I never wrote is an opera.'
EAST TIMOR: Journalists Hold Out For Better Media Laws
- Inter Press Service
Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
CHINA: Secret Memoir Highlights Political Dissent
- Inter Press Service
Painstaking efforts by Chinese leadership to maintain the cloak of official silence over the crackdown of a 1989 pro-democracy movement backfired this week when Hong Kong released explosive clandestine memoirs of an ousted reformist party leader.
MIDEAST: Israel Expanding 'Beautifully' In Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
Even as Pope Benedict XVI tries his best during his current Holy Land visit to pay reverence to the attachment of all three monotheistic faiths to Jerusalem, on the ground a less lofty imprint is already furthering Israeli control over the Holy City in a way that could threaten the claims of all but Jews to Jerusalem.
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