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France 24 | First Broadcast

The new international channel France 24 is in the air at the moment. By go to www.france24.com you are able to get connected. The whole website of France 24 is only to be seen as on your TV screen. You can, though choose from watching the channel in French, English or in Arabic. The Arabic version of F24 is not reachable at the moment but the other languages you are able to watch. Have a look and give your own oppinion on their first broadcast.
Their full version of the website is to be fully created and seen on the 7th of December at 8:30 pm (+1).

CLICK HERE TO GET CONNECTED TO FRANCE 24

Partur úr grein á Mbl.is | "Dönsk birtingarhús mæla ekki lengur með fríblöðum"

"...Að sögn Berlingske sendi birtingarhúsið MediaCom tölvupóst til viðskiptavina sinna í síðustu viku þar sem þeim var ráðlagt að auglýsa ekki í fríblöðunum þremur, Nyhedsavisen, Dato og 24Timer, aðalega vegna vandamála í dreifingu blaðanna..."
(Click here to read the article from the start)

Blame Iceland | Washington Post

"Blame Iceland/

Posted by W.P: Sunday, December 3, 2006; Page B06

"A tiny country that still hunts whales scuttles an effort to save the ocean bottom.

IN A FORM of fishing known as bottom trawling, huge, weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor, destroying corals and just about everything else in their path. In U.S. waters, the practice is tightly regulated -- and forbidden in certain environmentally sensitive areas. On much of the high seas, however, it's open season. Delicate ecosystems get ravaged with nobody paying attention. The Bush administration, along with several other governments, has been pushing for a moratorium on unregulated trawling on the high seas. Last month, thanks in large part to Iceland, it failed to get that measure..." (Click to read article)

This is an article posted on the Washington Post wepage. But many negative comments from the public have been posted to it.

My Comment, on his negative approach to Iceland, is this one:

"Come to your sences, please! Dear W.P journalist. I expect, by reading your article, that you do not know much about those you are criticizing. And as well, I expect that you do not realise much about your own country. I hope you will feel better about your criticism, when I inform you little about Iceland. A country that has more then 1000 years of democracy and more than 1000 years of literary tradition, with the lowest rate in crime, with one of the highest rates improving women rights (and selected the first woman president in the world), with a law that fully supports gay rights, that descovered North-America (Leifur Eiriksson) - and, notice, that has no army. Furthermore a country, with such power as you describe, even though it is as tiny as you say! Being small does not tell that one can´t make changes. Anyhow, we are proud of being a tiny country. Because people from tiny countries are used to learn a lot about other parts of the world.
Andres Jakob Gudjonsson, Icelandic student in International Communications at the American University of Paris."

The Vikings are coming | BBC news

Icelandic companies are buying a stake in most parts of British life, football being the latest. But how is the country with a population the same of Doncaster staging a Viking invasion?
Woolworths, House of Fraser, Hamleys, Karen Millen, Oasis, French Connection, Whittards and, of course, Iceland. Much of the British high street now has a little bit of fire and ice in it - in the form of Icelandic investment.

For a country with a population of just over 290,000 - roughly the same as Doncaster - Icelandic businesses are starting to become an increasingly important deal maker in the City...

By Denise Winterman BBC News Magazine
The whole article

PRSI | The new elected Public Relation Society of Iceland executive management

The new elected PRSI executive management met on their first assemblage March 30. The strategy was determined on this first assemblage and as well the deviation of the executive management.

Gudjon Palsson, the CEO and founder of Grey Communication Iceland (GCI), is the new President of Public Relation Society of Iceland and Helga Gudrun Jonsdottir at B&L, is the new Vice-Chairman.

The new Accountant of PRSI is Hulda Bjarnadottir at KOM and Pall Þorsteinsson at Inntak is still the Secretary since last year. The new member of the board is Valþor Hlodversson at Athygli and is as well as the new president of Board of Ethics.

"MBA STUDENTS LACK TRAINING IN MANAGING CORPORATE REPUTATION"(PRSA; February 11, 2005)

NEW YORK (February 11, 2005) - At a time when corporate reputations are more significant than ever, with scandals and financial downturns sapping shareholder support, undermining consumer confidence and tarnishing some of the most trusted corporate brands, a new study indicates that MBA students are receiving little if any preparation on how to manage corporate reputation issues... (Click here to read more)

(An article by Public Relations Society of America)

Fake news via Google: a work by a teenager (PRSA)

Spreading fake news via Google: What a New Jersey teen did
(Mar.29, 2006)

Earlier this month, a New Jersey teenager submitted a fake press release about being hired by Google to — Google News, which promptly posted the submission on the world’s most popular Web site for news.
In an article published by The Christian Science Monitor March 29, the incident, while unusual, illustrates the hazards of Google’s automated approach to picking news stories...(Click here to read more)

(An article by Public Relations Society of America(PRSA)

How blogs are shaping the media, politics (PRSA)

Another view on how blogs are shaping the media, politics
(Mar.29, 2006)

“Nothing I have witnessed is as potentially transformative of media and politics as the emergence of blogging — or rather, the emergence of the ‘voice of the people through blogging,’” says journalist David Kline, who recently participated in a webchat hosted by the U.S. Department of State.

Kline, author of the book “blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture,” discussed the function of blogs in the political arena, how blogs fit in with mainstream news media and the blogosphere’s evolution.

“My own theory is that political bloggers will make it more possible for previously unheard voices to be heard and attract an audience — and for streams of political opinion outside the traditional two-party [Republican and Democrat] rhetoric to gain a following,” said Kline.

For the full transcript:

http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2006/Mar/27-734425.html

(An article by Public Relations Society of America;

Click here to visit PRSA website)

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