links for 2006-10-22

• Global Voices Online »China: Botched jobs
  John Kennedy translates a blog post by "Siyi" who writes that while some Chinese journalist suffer for their principles, most have sold out completely: "For media workers like these, China is definitely not a prison, but a sauna center." More good stuff
  (tags: china blogs blogging chineseinternetresearch humor journalism media)
• CBS News and the blogosphere | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  "Whoever's producing CBS News doesn't seem to grasp that "the blogs" are not some undifferentiated goo to spread on stories for spice."
  (tags: blogs news journalism media)
• China gears up for mobile TV bonanza - IT Week
  "More than 22 million people in China will be watching TV broadcasts on mobile devices within four years, according to a new forecast published this week."
  (tags: china mobile wireless tv video chineseinternetresearch)
• Epic 2014 & Epic 2015 - Museum of Media History
  I hadn't noticed till now that there's now an update to the original Epic 2014 flash movie on the future of news.
  (tags: news media future blog blogs)
• Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress | Top News | Reuters.com
  "More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday."
  (tags: u.s.a. politics elections)
• MercuryNews.com | 10/21/2006 | Google flexing political muscle
  "Google, a global economic force but a latecomer to Washington politics, is trying to boost its influence in Congress with the first campaign contributions from its new political action committee."
  (tags: google search politics)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

World democracy is still far away from reality.

The American people gave support without question(aka rally behind the president and don't ask too many questions) to their President over the Iraq war(they have a tendency to do this whenever the US government is involved in international spat), yet as far as they are concern the Iraq war is an abstract war. The majority of the people have yet to have a machine gun fly across their heads or bombs dropped on their property.

That decision to go to war has caused at least 30,000 Iraqi deaths according to Bush's own estimate and could go as high as 400,000 according to another study. Yet today, more Americans seem troubled by the 3,000 deaths on American soldiers than they are about the 400,000 Iraqi deaths.

Is the Iraqi war a violation of Iraqi human rights? They never got a chance to have their say on whether they wanted the Americans to invade their country. The justification for failure to find WMD may not be a big deal for Americans but I am sure it is a big deal to the Iraqi people who have lost loved ones in the war.