Interesting... I guess you know that there has been a lot of recent criticism of Al Jazeera for being rather mushy in their reporting on Bahrein (because of their owners in the Emirates...
(BTW, I've suddenly become a fan/addict to Canadian polling re: the upcoming election... No single best go to place that I can find but tracking things through http://www.threehundredeight.blogspot.com/ is a lot of fun especially when they go into the intricacies of their "model" and why it seems to be si out of touch with everyone else's findings (including those that they themselves are quoting/analysing... For those who are not subjects of his Imperial whatever S. Harper, it looks increasingly possible that Canadians (and the world) might wake up on May 3 with a minority social democratic (NDP) government in waiting in Ottawa! ("waiting" because the peculiarities of the Canadian constitutional system will mean that the Governor General will need to invite one of the parties to form a government -- in the absence of a majority of members in the House being of one party, the G.G. has the right to choose which party he invites but the convention is that it is normally the party with the most seats--which could, there is a not negligible possibility, be the NDP. A more likely scenario is aother Harper minority but this time with a very sizeable NDP legislative opposition with the opportunity of defeating Harper almost immediately. With the NDP then forming a government with the (informal) backing of what is left of the Liberal party and being able to govern without the need for support from the (likely) decimated Bloc Quebecois. Such a development would have significant and long term political repercussions in Canada (a possible re-alignment of parties on Left-Right lines) and very possibly the jettisoning of the radical rightist Harper and his neo-con allies from a re-positioned right centre Liberal/"Progressive" Conservative party... Fun times... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of de Bivort Lawrence Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:59 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: <nettime> Middle East crises and Japandisaster lead to an increase of online, TV viewers Interesting trend. Thanks, Michael. Here on washington, Al-Jazeera has become the the essential place to go for timely and in-depth coverage of events in the Middle East. Some Al-Jazeera watchers are starting to suggest that their information on other parts of the world are superior to that of CNN, the US broadcasters, and -- yes -- even the BBC. With my interest in the Middle East, the public sources I I follow daily: Haaretz, al-Jazeera, Guardian, Le Monde, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al-Ahram, BBC, NYT, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post (despite its dramatic deterioration over the past couple of years and now horrible website). Cheers, Lawry On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juergen Fenn > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:42 PM > To: nettime-l mailing list > Subject: <nettime> Middle East crises and Japan disaster lead to an > increase of online, TV viewers > > > > The revolutions in Tunesia and Egypt and the civil war in Libya as > well as the earth quake and tsunami leading to a nuclear catastrophe > in Japan have lead to a sharp increase of users viewing TV on-line. I > have just come across a blog post by web TV provider Livestation that > says the number of users has risen by 1047 percent (sic!) in the first > quarter of 2011, making it the first profitable one in the company's > history. The blog post says there are some 10 million viewers per > month now watching international news channels such as BBC World News, > AlJazeera, or AlArabya on the peer-to-peer service, as access is free > to everyone who installs the client necessary. Mobile sessions also > increased to some 15 million in March 2011. > > <http://blog.livestation.com/index.php/2011/04/the-livestation-revolut > ion/> > > Regards, > Jürgen. > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # > <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # > collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more > info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > > > !DSPAM:2676,4db9486040303383636737! > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
