>> hello, i'm richard gizbert and i'm at the "listening post." this week the story is changing in chile. 40 years after the coup that brought augusto pinochet to power, the chilean media tell the story in a different way. it was said to be wrong to support the regime in that country. norway gives birth to a new kind of television. will slow tv catch on anywhere else? if you like the idea of an attack on syria - the kick starter campaign is our video of the week. >> here at the "listening post" we use the media was a lens through which the media is shown. >> we do that with chile, which marked the 4th anniversary of the leftist president salvador allende. anverse ris rarely receive that much attention in the chilean media. this year is different. mainstream outlets released a dell uj, talking about what what be shown about the coup and the 18 year dictatorship under augusto pinochet. >> at a time when institutions like the judiciary asked for forgiveness for failure to protect the per cent cuted, some of the media -- persecuted, some of the media

sthoo i'm richard gizbert, and this is listening post. kahnage in syria. sources. >> user generation conflict. the middle man that can help you get your journalism into print and on the air. a novel idea on piecing together a custom made mobile phone so it doesn't end up in a landfill. >> the siege at the shopping mall in nairobi was an unfolding tragedy, a 4-day long horror of a news story with multiple angles beyond the death toll. gunmen from somalia based group al-shabab went on a killing spree. as the siege dragged on, so did al-shabab's exposure. journalists were left with little to do but report on al-shabab, which would have played into their hand. throughout it all al-shabab used social media like twitter to challenge the narrative and keep followers updated in almost real time about what the attackers were doing and why. the recurring dilemma for news outlets on a story like this is how to report the news without serving as mouth pieces for the people that make it. our starting point is the westgate mall in kenya. >> the westgate mall is unt -- i

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. >> hello, i'm richard gizbert and you're watching a special edition of the listening post.ery week on this program, we take a close critical look at the global news media. this time, we're doing something different. we're going to talk about a man who coined a phrase we often repeat but seldom stop to explain. you may have never heard of marshall mcluhan, a canadian professor of literature turned high priest of media theory, but you're probably familiar with his most widely quoted adage - 'the medium is the message'. in the 1960s, long before anybody had a facebook page, posted their whereabouts on twitter, uploaded images on youtube or exposed government

. >> hello, i'm richard gizbert and you're watching a special edition of the listening post. every week on this program, we take a close critical look at the global news media. this time, we're doing something different. we're going to talk about a man who coined a phrase we often repeat but seldom stop to explain. you may have never heard of marshall mcluhan, a canadian professor of literature turned high priest of media theory, but you're probably familiar with his most widely quoted adage - 'the medium is the message'. in the 1960s, long before anybody had a facebook page, posted their whereabouts on twitter, uploaded images on youtube or exposed government secrets on wikileaks, marshall mcluhan made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. what he said then still resonates in the wired world we inhabit today. mcluhan was writing about the effects of the mass media on contemporary life, talking mostly about television. however, his ideas and predictions proved prophetic and, in the tumult of today's digital revolution, a lot of what mcluhan said seems

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