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- 19 May 2012 A BUILDING IS NOT ENOUGH: Occupying a Skyscraper for Art Hundreds of people are blocking a street in Milano protesting for the eviction of a skyscraper of 32 floors they were occupying. The tower, quite new, was abandoned since 1996 in a town were many new skyscrapers are built for the Expo 2015 and nobody knows if they will ever be used. Indybay Journalists Charged with Felony Santa Cruz County District Attorney Bob Lee has embarked on a full frontal assault against independent media in Santa Cruz by including four regular contributors to the independent news website Indybay.org amongst the eleven people charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors after the occupation of a vacant bank building on November 30th, 2011. KPFA Evening News Speaks with Bradley Stuart Allen | Day Three of "Conspiracy" Frame-Up Hearing | Bogus Attack on Journalists Around November Protest Goes On and On | Preliminary "Conspiracy" Hearing for Two Reporters in the 75 River St.

Indymédia Lille Le Magazine de l'Homme Moderne, bienvenue ! Democratic Underground CAS Libres La Une CQFD, journal de critique sociale Online news isn’t turning journalists into sheep John Naughton wrote an Observer article at the weekend complaining that news websites such as Gawker "allow ratings to dictate content". And although he didn't say so in so many words, his targets are clearly SEO and site-analytics and real-time trend data. I say he wrote it. It's mostly a restirring of an original source, an article in the Atlantic. But his main complaints are that journalists are turning into sheep, with the herd all charging in the same direction. I can't see anything different about how online news works compared to how newspapers work. Ewe don't have to follow the herd His issues are as follows. News organisations are writing about what their readers are interested in "Market-driven news [means] news agendas that are driven not by some professional assessment of what's important and relevant, but by research into what viewers like and respond to." There are five sorts of stories that news organisations can report on: There are sites that only do (4) and (5). To sum up

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