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How to represent the post 9/11 American decade

Posted: 17 Sep 2011

I’ve spent the last days at Australia’s first investigative journalism conference organised by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, where I’m an Honorary Associate. It was called Back to the Source and I spoke on the effect of Wikileaks on modern journalism (short version; it’s major, it’s profound and the mainstream press are nervous about losing its power).

Video of my event will be forthcoming but in the meantime I was very impressed with the various talks by Robert Rosenthal, Executive Director of America’s Centre for Investigative Reporting. It’s an organisation, funded largely by philanthropic means, designed to produce quality journalism. Its latest major project was about the effect of post 9/11 anti-terror laws on daily lives. As one way to explain very complex information, the group produced this animation, alongside print, online, radio and video, and it shows how new forms of journalism can be utilised to reach an even wider number of people. Media on multiple platforms was a theme repeated over and over again:

When friends are limited, Zionists make out with Christian Right

Posted: 17 Sep 2011

Ben White reveals Israel’s newest best friends:

Faced with the increasingly difficult task of ‘selling’ Israeli policies to the UK public, Israel’s supporters in this country are cementing relationships with some strange bed-fellows.

Israeli embassy officials are happy working with groups like ‘Mordechai Voice’, a new addition to the Christian Zionist scene in the UK. Apart from helping with local presentations, staff from Israel’s embassy spoke at a July “prayer meeting” organised by people who look forward to the day “all Israel is saved”. It seems the Embassy has no problem collaborating with Christians whose motivation for supporting Israel is the belief that such advocacy is the “key to UK revival”.