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In both the Australian and British debates about media ethics and accountability, a key question about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal was whether or not the law should provide stronger protection for individuals from invasion of their...
Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World, by Hugh Miles. London: Abacus, 2005, 438pp. ISBN 0349 118078
The Al Jazeera Phenomenon, by Mohamed Zayani (ed). London: Pluto Press, 2005, 222pp. ISBN 0745323332.
Ending the Affair: The decline of television current affrairs in Australia, by Graeme Turner: Sydney, UNSW Press, 2005, 173 pp. ISBN 0 86840 864 6.
Commentary: World coverage on the Sandline affair was in contrast to that of the long-running civil war on Bougainville. Foreign journalists have been kept out and perhaps it is just a coincidence that its horrors have never been live on CNN but now...
