Since many of our DU'ers don't have cable news anymore, they might like to watch these two videos that give news that our cables here in the USA don't bother to report, anymore.
After giving up on Candy Crowley on CNN this Morning and preferring not to watch "Dock Block Crime Series on MSNBC" ...I went looking for other sources.
Here are two good interviews...and it's not all about Murdoch...there's some good stuff about Google, Sattelite, Cloud and Privacy packed in there too!
Hope some will take time to check them out:
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The days that shook Murdoch's media world
The tale of tabloid phone hacking that has rocked the foundations of Britain's political and media establishment.Earlier this month, the UK's Guardian newspaper published allegations that the country's leading weekly tabloid the News of the World had hired a private investigator who accessed and deleted messages from a murdered teenager's voicemail.
The revelations - the latest twist in the ever-unfolding phone hacking scandal - caused a huge public outcry. They have led to the publication's parent company, News Corporation, and its owner Rupert Murdoch pulling the plug, at least for now, on the planned takeover of Britain's biggest broadcaster, BSkyB.
But many questions remain unanswered: How complicit were the police, politicians and prosecutors in this story? Did they attempt to cover up the scandal? Was the executive body of NewsCorp aware of what was happening? And how will it affect the Murdoch dynasty's role in British journalism?
Our News Divide this week looks at a tale of tabloid phone hacking and how it is rocking the very foundations of Britian's political and media establishments.
Does Britain's print media have the ability to self-regulate? Should it face more stringent regulations like the country's broadcast media? And has Rupert Murdoch been a force for good in British journalism? We substitute our NewsByte section this week to debate these questions with one of the few defenders of the UK's tabloid culture, renowned author and journalist Toby Young.
One of the functions of the first satellites launched at the height of the Cold War, was to give the US and the former Soviet Union the ability to spy on each other from outer space. Now, these satellites are becoming powerful tools for journalism.
Commercial satellite companies began selling their product in the 1980s but the hi-tech imagery, for the most part, remained the preserve of governments and well-funded news organisations. Then, in 2005 when Google Earth launched, high-resolution imagery became available to the masses and it was not just governments and journalists poring over it, but any number of the 700 million users who downloaded the software.
VIDEO AT:
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/07/201171517130540148.html-----------
Murdoch ally Rebekah Brooks arrested
As Brooks is questioned in scandal, London's police chief quits over links to another former Murdoch editor
Opposition callsMurdoch broke his silence by publishing apologies in several newspapers on Saturday, as British politicians demanded his grip over the country's media be weakened.
In an interview published in UK's Sunday Observer newspaper, Ed Miliband, the opposition Labour party leader, called the concentration of power in Murdoch's British media empire "quite dangerous".
"I think it's unhealthy because that amount of power in one person's hands has clearly led to abuses of power within his organisation," he said .
Miliband's own popularity has benefited from his aggressive pursuit of Murdoch and the London police officials whose links to News Corporation have been exposed.
His approval rating has risen seven points from last month, according to a poll commissioned by the Independent newspaper.
Cameron, who met News Corporation executives more than all other media bosses combined during his tenure, has seen his approval rating fall three points.
VIDEO AT:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/2011717122732490901.html
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