Authoritarian Rulers Issue Fashion Statement - June 26, 2021
After enduring eons of wars, pestilence and plague - not to forget water damage - world leaders came to agree that prosperity, usually for themselves, would rise when all those bad things were brought to an end. The world became intertwined, more or less. Happiness ensued. As the planet became more crowded, not to forget warmer, the competitive instinct rose. And along with it grievance.

Fierce Newspaper Running Low On Paper and Ink - June 21, 2021
Cynics often expound dryly on public unwillingness to support independent news outlets. Sometimes this is couched as indifference to press freedom. Or folks only want to be entertained, thus firmly attached en masse to social media portals or streaming video channels. This systemic lack of confidence in the public, say social psychologists, stems from low self-esteem. Go figure.

Big Global News Media Faces Down Dictators - August 13, 2020
News media is truly globalized. A hundred years ago this was barely the case. Sure, bigger newspapers hired foreign correspondents, readers enjoyed the occasional report from faraway places even when the copy was slowly carried across the seas by boat. Then radio carried news across wide spaces and international broadcasting was off and running. Satellites were launched to enable television channels almost everywhere. Now, it is the internet, occasionally spiced up with the odd bot.

China and Media

For the media world China both entices and exasperates. Potentials in this youthful and rapidly developing country are huge. Yet media freedoms are far below world standards. This ftm Knowledge file peers over the Great Wall. Includes Resources 79 pages PDF (May 2012)

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