We spoke about the changing face of global media.
Kimberley Leonard of the ARN newsroom joined us to introduce her interview with Adrian Wells (Head of Foreign News) and Tim Marshall (Foreign News Editor) for Sky News.
How well are we being served by journalism anyway?
Mustafa Al Rawi, Managing Editor of Emirates Business 24/7 and Tony Metcalf Editor-in-Chief of metro US also got involved.
The reality is that money has had a dramatic effect on the way we make and understand news expression!
Maybe there is no real objectivity.
But what is the role of the press anyway?
James Piecowye took over Nightline in October 2006 until it was canceled in June 2018. The cast and crew of Nightline decided to keep the show going and this is where James posts the notes.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
April 16---students with a voice
This evening three of the winners of the 7th inter-school creative writing slam joined us in studio!
Give the podcast a listen, IT IS AMAZING!
Who joined us?
Students need to be allowed to experiment, live and be kids!
Students need an outlet.
Stop projecting on your kids, parents!
And most important and the hardest to do.... LISTEN to our youth the answers are there and sometimes that might mean backing off...
Give the podcast a listen, IT IS AMAZING!
Who joined us?
- FATHIMA KHAN—Student of Our own English High School,Shj Won the WORTHY WORD SMITH TROPHY,
- Bahar Behrouzi Homa : Student of Westminster school Dxb, Won the 1st prize in category B
- Christina AnnThomas— ,Student of OUR Own English High School Dubai Won the 1st prize in the category A.
Students need to be allowed to experiment, live and be kids!
Students need an outlet.
Stop projecting on your kids, parents!
And most important and the hardest to do.... LISTEN to our youth the answers are there and sometimes that might mean backing off...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
April 15---war on terror with Dr. Kenneth Christie
Dr. Kenneth Christie helped us understand the war on terror and maybe the other side of the coin,, our human rights!
Here is the opening to his new book.
This book is an attempt to assess the implications of the US declared war on terror for human rights on a global scale. It will deal with this mainly from a political science and international relations perspective. There has been major changes in the human rights regime adopted in the post 1945 period, many of which, it has been argued, are revolutionary in nature. These changes also became more significant during the cold war and post-cold war period. As one author argued:
The transition from a nation-state world order to a cosmopolitan world order brings about a very significant priority shift from international law to human rights. The principle that international law precedes human rights which held during the (nation-state) period of modernity is being replaced by the principle of the (world society) second age of modernity, that human rights precedes international law. As yet, the consequences have not been thought through, but they will be revolutionary.
And yet such radical consequences have not been borne out by the global events of the late 1990’s. To a large extent I will question, the accuracy of this view of the current world order. Instead of a cosmopolitan world order there is an alternative idea and reality of international relations in which a hegemonic power, the USA, is seen as trampling over international law, flouting international human rights conventions and behaving like the schoolyard bully, but in a global sense. It is acting like an imperial colossus astride the ruins of a failed bi-polar system.
Dr. Kenneth Christie
Here is the opening to his new book.
This book is an attempt to assess the implications of the US declared war on terror for human rights on a global scale. It will deal with this mainly from a political science and international relations perspective. There has been major changes in the human rights regime adopted in the post 1945 period, many of which, it has been argued, are revolutionary in nature. These changes also became more significant during the cold war and post-cold war period. As one author argued:
The transition from a nation-state world order to a cosmopolitan world order brings about a very significant priority shift from international law to human rights. The principle that international law precedes human rights which held during the (nation-state) period of modernity is being replaced by the principle of the (world society) second age of modernity, that human rights precedes international law. As yet, the consequences have not been thought through, but they will be revolutionary.
And yet such radical consequences have not been borne out by the global events of the late 1990’s. To a large extent I will question, the accuracy of this view of the current world order. Instead of a cosmopolitan world order there is an alternative idea and reality of international relations in which a hegemonic power, the USA, is seen as trampling over international law, flouting international human rights conventions and behaving like the schoolyard bully, but in a global sense. It is acting like an imperial colossus astride the ruins of a failed bi-polar system.
Dr. Kenneth Christie
Monday, April 14, 2008
3rd culture kids
Hi everyone, I thought you might enjoy my podcast: Nightline with JAMES on DubaiEye 103.8 FM
- - James
- - James
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