Russians victims of their own propaganda
The number of negative articles on Lithuania is growing by the day on Russian Internet sites, writes the news portal Balsas:
“The readers then put their comments at the bottom, in which they delight – very much along the lines of Russian propaganda – that Lithuania has so many problems, without [...]
A growing number of businesses and government offices are stopping their employees from using social networks like Facebook during working hours.
A big mistake, writes the daily Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden):
“Studies reveal that employees who feel good on the job and who are confident that their employers trust them do better work. Social media have the same [...]
The golden era of journalism has come to an end, Lluís Bassets concludes commenting on the annual report of the Reporters without Borders organisation:
“It’s difficult to say which year was the best but 1974 is among the candidates. I’m referring to the life of journalists of course.
In that year a couple of young and humble [...]
Media should cooperate in the information space to avoid “silly and absurd stereotypes,” the editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel told a 2009 media forum in Moscow on Wednesday.
Moscow — “We post TV-quality video on our website, which can be rebroadcasted,” Margarita Simonyan said, adding that the videos can be downloaded for free.
Executive Director [...]
The English version of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has lost over 50,000 authors this year.
The daily The Times welcomes the exodus: “The persistent decline in the number of Wikipedia editors may signal the end of the dominance of a remarkable online resource. It cannot happen too soon.
… Wikipedia is routinely cited in online [...]
I work in online video and spend a good amount of time reading and talking about social media. Lately, however, I’ve starting getting a little frustrated with what I have been seeing in the space. As I watch social media completely transform a variety of industries, online video is continuously left off the playing field. [...]
The daily Lapin Kansa (Finland) sees regional variations in the price of fast Internet connections in Finland as unjustified, arguing that nowadays the Internet is a basic provision:
“For the Finns it’s quite normal that the postage for a letter is the same everywhere and at all times, no matter where the letter is sent from and [...]
Were the state parliamentary elections in Germany improperly influenced?
A good 90 minutes before polling stations closed the first prognoses on the parliamentary elections were on the Net in the microblog Twitter.
For the left-liberal daily Frankfurter Rundschau there is no way of keeping exit poll data under lock and key:
“All it takes is a single busybody [...]
The daily Eesti Päevaleht (Estonia) comments on the sale of the Latvian media group Diena by the owner, the Swedish Bonnier media group. Little is known about the background of the new investor:
“The veiled nature of Bonnier’s Latvia deal is unfortunate because we’re dealing with a media company here. The press is not a normal [...]
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This prompts Ali Žerdin to reflect in the daily Dnevnik (Slovenia) on the role of journalists in today’s world:
“It has become more difficult to assess the value of a journalist’s work on the market. A market where, since the advent of the Internet, no one can assess the [...]
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