Truth

Knowledge and the digital future

Rupert Murdoch, speaking in London on Monday night at The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers:

… he evangelised about a digital future that would put that power in the hands of those already launching a blog every second, sharing photos and music online and downloading television programmes on demand. "A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it," he said. Indicating he had little desire to slow down despite his advancing years, he told the 603-year-old guild that he was looking forward, not back.

"It is difficult, indeed dangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and destroy - not just companies but whole countries."

The owner of Fox News added: "Never has the flow of information and ideas, of hard news and reasoned comment, been more important. The force of our democratic beliefs is a key weapon in the war against religious fanaticism and the terrorism it breeds."

Refusing to reminisce over a career that saw him develop a global empire stretching from DirecTV and the New York Post in the US to Sky and the Sun in the UK via assets in South America, Asia and Australia, he declared: "I believe we are at the dawn of a golden age of information - an empire of new knowledge."

The Guardian

Donal MacIntyre

This is the official site for Donal McIntyre, investigative journalist and documentary film maker.

http://macintyre.com/

Islam and Press Freedom

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

Jyllands-Posten publishes a Manifesto, signed by Salman Rushide and 11 others.

Pro-Test

Laurie Pycroft's initiative, this is

… the official site of Pro-Test. We are a UK based group with the aim of promoting and supporting scientific research and debate including animal based research. Please click on the links above to find out more about us, and perhaps get involved in our work.

Pro-Test's work in support of Oxford University's new biomedical research centre is well-known. Steve Boggan in the Guardian interviewed five Oxford students who have publicly committed themselves to Pro-Test.

America and Press Freedom

Glenn Greenwald is a litigator in NYC specializing in First Amendment challenges (including some of the highest-profile free speech cases over the past few years), civil rights cases, and corporate and security fraud matters. Here, he posts about Gorge Bush and attacks on press freedom:

One of the most under-publicized and under-discussed news events is the ongoing criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act of two employees of the American Israeli Political Action Committee ("AIPAC"), and more generally, the Bush Administration's broader, unprecedented assault on a free press of which the AIPAC prosecution is but a part.