Posts Tagged ‘Media’

Political Campaigning: The Common (Grass)Roots of Obama and Kennedy?

July 25, 2011 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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“None of our politicians since Franklin has found such a direct contact to the masses”. Eleanor Roosevelt about John F. Kennedy (Photo: http://bit.ly/iWNn4) In these days, Barack Obama is negotiating with the Republicans over the national debt limit and, in the end, over America’s creditworthiness and the country’s future rating on the financial markets. The [...]

Copenhagen 2009. Propaganda?

December 5, 2010 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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Noam Chomsky (Source: http://bit.ly/gYOtrn) Of course I was disappointed. When I followed the German news on the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, I got the feeling that the world was unable to adress the size of the challenge ahead. I fully agreed with the coverage in German newspapers, which emphasised that this had [...]

Kaletsky, Capitalism and the Media

August 8, 2010 by Christoph · 2 Comments
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Photo: New York Stock Exchange 1963 (Source: http://bit.ly/amYJNo) This afternoon, I came across an interesting passage in Anatole Kaletsky’s “Capitalism 4.0″ (2010): “The media, influential academics, and the political establishment usually hold the same view. These powerful opinion-formers have risen to prominence under the old system. Their intellectual conservatism is often even more entrenched than [...]

Print journalism: Light at the end of the tunnel?

June 24, 2010 by Christoph · 1 Comment
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Photo Source: http://bit.ly/chDf6J No – it’s not a typo! Last week’s Economist published an article under the headline: “Newspapers: not dead yet”. For years it seemed as if the death of newspapers was only a matter of time. The Internet and its free content promised to be their grave digger. However: “German and Brazilian papers shrugged [...]

I’m on my way

March 24, 2010 by Christoph · 1 Comment
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Hi and welcome to my blog. Finding the right words for a good start is never easy and therefore I just started typing. The picture you see above was taken during a car ride through Lower Bavaria in 2005. And basically it shows the state this blog is in: I’m on my way. This is [...]