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1 marzo, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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War on Terror, War on Muslims? (Empire, EJENglish)

War on Terror, War on Muslims?

US President Barack Obama is vowing to «degrade, and ultimately destroy» a terrorist group destabilising the Middle East he says could threaten Americans at home.

Sound familiar? George W Bush made a similar vow, yet more than a decade after launching the so-called War on Terror, both the war and the terror are still raging. Continue leyendo →

29 febrero, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Journalism and the NSA revelations

Contents
Tables and Figures vii
Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
1.  The NSA Revelations as a Prism 1
Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, Adrienne Russell,
and Elisabeth Eide
2.  Two Dimensions of Global Discourse: Domestication
and Justification 23
Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, and Adrienne Russell
with Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Katy Jones, Anne Mollen,
Johanna Möller, Frédéric Nicolas, Olivier Baisnée,
Haiyan Wang, Dennis Leung, Ruolin Fang, and Dmitry Yagodin
3. Justifying Surveillance: The New Discursive Settlement
in UK Opinionated Journalism 51
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Katy Jones
4.  News Flashpoints: The Snowden Revelations in the
United States 69
Adrienne Russell and Silvio Waisbord
5.  Security, Terror, and Freedom: The Dynamics of
Public Opinion in the French Surveillance Debate 91
Olivier Baisnée and Frédéric Nicolas
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6. ‘Please Stay Frustrated!’: The Politicisation of
Digital Technologies in the German NSA Debate 113
Johanna Möller and Anne Mollen
7.  Media Diplomacy and the NSA: Making the Case at Home
and Abroad for Chinese National Interests 129
Haiyan Wang and Ruolin Fang
8. Governance and Digital Sovereignty: The Instrumental Role
of Journalistic Consensus in Russia 147
Dmitry Yagodin
References 165
Index 174

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29 febrero, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Are foreign correspondents redundant?

The changing face of international news

Richard Sambroo Dec 8, 2010

Contents
Executive Summary 1
1. The Changing Role of the Foreign Correspondent 3
2. Economics 11
3. Technology 27
4. Globalisation 47
5. The Public Appetite for Foreign News 59
6. On the Ground: Introducing the Case Studies 69
7. China: The Dragon Stirs 71
8. Africa: Learning to Report Itself 81
9. Iran: The Closed Society 89
10. Case Study Conclusions 95
11. Conclusions 97
List of Interviewees 103
Bibliography 105
Acknowledgements 107
 

 

29 febrero, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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U.S. signs peace deal with Taliban

Afghan men celebrate in anticipation of a U.S.-Taliban agreement in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday. (Parwiz/Reuters)

Afghan men celebrate in anticipation of a U.S.-Taliban agreement in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday. (Parwiz/Reuters) v @washingtonpost

By Susannah George and Dan Lamothe (W. Post)

Feb. 29, 2020 at 2:20 p.m. GMT+1

U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar inked the deal in an opulent hall in a five-star hotel in Dohar, Qatar. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo witnessed the signing.

The agreement lays out a path for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan beginning with a drawdown to 8,600 troops «within months» upon President Trump’s orders, according to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin «Scott» Miller.

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29 febrero, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Protecting yourself from disinformation in 2020 (American Security Project)

Protecting Yourself from Disinformation in 2020

By Matthew Wallin on Feb 28, 2020

As news circulates of Russia’s intentions for interference in the 2020 election, Americans would be wise to become more skeptical of information circulated through social media networks. Though Russia relies on troll factories and armies of bots, much of this disinformation we see circulating is actually generated and circulated by Americans at home.

To improve your ability to determine whether the information you’re about to like or share is real, it’s best to approach with a healthy degree of skepticism. Below is a guide with some pointers on how to avoid becoming a weapon in the growing disinformation war. Continue leyendo →