Information Bits

I recently watched the interview with Ralph Nader at Google and I have to say I was impressed. Not so well known in Europe, Ralph Nader is a political activist with an unbreakable optimism to change the United States in a country which it could be. So listen to his speech and admire how he keeps up his spirit in a country with one party in two flavors and a war criminal leading for two administrations …

Maybe it doesn’t help much but one of the worst things which could happen to Europe is to have Tony Blair in any official office. So please sign this petition!

The Technology Review “You Don’t Understand Your Audience” article by John Hockenberry is a well told story how the broadcasting networks in the United States, especially NBC, have changed their style of presenting news after 9/11 to the worse. Not the truth or the facts are the main theme, now the “emotional center” of the nation has to be supported, good journalism does not matter any more.
This article is a good example how traditional media have changed and why the world now is more attracted by YouType, MySpace and Facebook. Good mainstream journalism seems to be (mostly) dead, at least at the broadcasting networks.

This is an older but never less interesting documentation about what you can see and hear if you listen to satellite news feeds. I think is not so easy any more because today most stuff is encrypted and already cut before broadcasting.

Google has the motto “Don’t be evil.”, but sometimes they are definitely misguided. Google’s advertising group for the health care industry has it’s own blog and the newest entry is a recommendation for the poor companies which are target of Michael Moore’s newest movie “Sicko” how to support people to find the “true” information about them with the help of Google Ads. Micheal Moore always exaggerate in his movies but they help to set the spotlight on the weak places in the American society. Google is the premium access point to find information on the Internet and it is, also incontestable, a commercial company which has the primary target to make money, nothing else. But I think Google has now also a responsibility to balance the interests of the public and their commercial targets, but if they have to choose they always choose the profitable one (as seen with China).

Not only Europe, also the USA has a de facto censorship of the press which is currently by far stronger than every time in the history because of the stupid and commercial interesting “War on terrorism“. A lot of stories pill be actively or indirect prohibited for publications. These two sides at least publish interesting ones on the internet.

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