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When is International Don’t Put This Man on TV Day?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality on September 11, 2010
How a mustachioed outlier learned to use Twitter and suckered the media.
An otherwise unknown loon takes control of the newscycle, gives more than 150 interviews prior to being awarded a formal press conference, and in the end, reneges on his promise of sacred scripture smoldering. Who fell for this?
On July 12, 2010, Pastor Terry Jones of Gainsville, Florida, fired off a tweet declaring September 11, 2010 “International Burn a Koran Day.” The man leads a congregation slightly larger than a high school softball team and can Read the rest of this entry »
Guardians of Truth
Posted by Kate Nacy in Fields of Coverage, New Media & Web 2.0 on August 23, 2010
Guardian creates governmental truth-tracking tool.
Emerging as leaders in “data journalism” and celebrated for launching a sharp bunch of free, simplified analysis tools, The Guardian releases its latest creation: The Pledge Tracker. As Britain’s new coalition government (a Conservative/Liberal Democrat mashup) came to office, a great number of promises were made to the public. Four hundred and thirty-three promises, in fact.
The Guardian‘s pledge tracker, a sortable database of the coalition’s pledges, monitors the promises according to their fulfillment statuses (i.e. “Kept,” “Not Kept,” “In Trouble,” “Wait and See”). Pledges can be sorted by metrics such as party, topic and Read the rest of this entry »
Sarkozy and the short workers, an example of spin doctoring
Posted by Marcello Foa in Spin & Public Relations on June 21, 2010
Il Giornale, June 21st, 2010
Image is everything in the communication era, especially for politicians.
Everyone knows this. One small blunder can ruin a reputation. It is therefore only to be expected that politicians tend to protect their images down to minute details. Yet sometimes they can take things a bit too far, like Nicolas Sarkozy, whose recalcitrance over communication is often over the top. When he visits factories, for example. Last year reporters discovered that the workers of the Faurecia factory at Caligny were selected based on height and that, many of them being too tall, shorter workers were bussed in from other nearby factories. Read the rest of this entry »
How a Prime Minister Scaled Media and Politics
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in Ethics & Quality on June 1, 2010
Ethical Space, Vol 7 Nos. 2/3, 2010
Natascha Fioretti examines Italy’s extraordinary ‘Berlusconismo’ phenomenon – and the response of the international media to it.
When elements of popular culture meet elements of political culture, the resulting combination falls into a category entitled ‘pop politics.’ According to Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Anna Sfardini (2009), strategies for managing politics and communications in Western democracies underwent profound changes in the last thirty years. Instead of thinking in terms of objective, factual information, today we think in terms of ‘infotainment’ (information combined with entertainment) and instead of thinking in terms of pure politics we think in terms of ‘politainment’ (politics combined with entertainment). Read the rest of this entry »
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