Media Action 259, Februar 2005
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Nepali Bloggers Break Media Blockade. (Das Foto zeigt Dinesh Wagle, einen Blogger im Himalaja). So wie Blogger Salam Pax zu einer unvoreingenommenen Informationsquelle im Zentrum des Irak wurde, als dieses Land angegriffen wurde, und die strikte Kontrolle der Berichterstattung austrickste, so finden Menschen in Nepal Wege, die Zensur des Königs und die Medieneinschränkungen zu umgehen. In weiteren Beiträgen geht es um den Aufbau von Gemeinschaft auf den Solomonen im Südpazifik, den Zusammenhang von Gender, Medien und Tsunamis sowie das Global Media Monitoring Project, das von WACC organisiert wird. Außerdem wird darüber informiert, wie man mit Fotos zu Kommunikationsthemen einen Preis gewinnen kann, indem man an der WACC Photographic Competition 2005 teilnimmt.
Sean Hawkey
Just as blogger Salam Pax became a candid source of information deep inside Iraq as it came under attack, outwitting the strictest of controls on reporting, so Nepalis are blogging their way through Royal censorship and media restrictions.
Fr. Ambrose Pereira sdb
Radio Bosco, 89.9 FM commenced its broadcast on 27th February, 2005 in the presence of Fr. Luciano Capelli, Director of Don Bosco Solomons, Fr. Ambrose Pereira, Director of Catholic Communications and Georg Amshoff, CAMECO Asia-Pacific representative, as well as many volunteers, friends, well-wishers and parishioners.
Paula Banerjee and Ranabir Samaddar of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group visited the WACC offices in London to report on an imaginative initiative on refugees and IDPs.
Stefania Milan
"For the first time, we were monitoring our media. We believe we will never watch, listen, or read the news with same eyes," Natalija Petric reported from Bosnia and Herzegovina. "You put on another pair of glasses and you see completely different news", one of the participants from the Netherlands said.
About the Competition
The closing date is 1 May 2005
Entries received after this date will not be considered. The competition winners will be announced on World Communication Day, 8 May.