Jewish Media Control USA in 2012
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An online media content analyst and trainer, Stella Omepa, has warned that the society faces enormous risk except the posting of harmful contents on social media is brought under control.
She said that unwholesome contents are having negative impacts on the psychological development of children.
Omepa raised the concern in a paper delivered at a workshop organised by the National Orientation Agency for bloggers and social media users in Lagos.
She pointed out cyber bullying as a major challenge facing the younger generation, noting that children who are exposed to such contents would grow up to embrace bullying as a way of life.
Omepa said it was sad that the older subscribers who should have set a more acceptable standard of interaction on social media platforms have also taken to cyber bullying. This, she said, is sending a wrong signal to teenage users.
Cyber bullying is not peculiar to young adults. Even older people suffer the same effects. Celebrities now dread the Internet because of lack of respect for their private lives and the negative comments made by Internet users who are hardly aware of their stories or struggles.
People have used Photoshop to do unthinkable things, sometimes drawing a link between an important personality and an animal. And before you know it, such images begin to trend on social media sites. I doubt if anyone would ever be able to comprehend the pain such a person would go through when he stumbles on the picture, she said.
The expert said it was important parents and guardians started protecting their children against cyber bullying before we start recording heartbreaking scenarios. To do this, she advised, the society should start correcting the impression among kids that they could say anything they wish without facing the consequence.
Omepa also pointed out that social media had the potential of impeding the intellectual growth of early users. She observed that most students now rely too much on the Internet for solutions at the expense of their intellectual development. This, she noted, prevented them from engaging in rigorous mental work to find unique solutions.
She continued, Estimating the number of younger Nigerians that own smartphones is very challenging, but it is glaring that the demand for stylish smartphones by younger Nigerians is on the rise due to the special features that enable them access the Internet. The dangers of exposure to harmful contents are also becoming a source of worry.
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Stories about media control and repression in China are legiondaily propaganda directives, stories spiked, journalists firedbut Chinese officials do not always reveal how they really feel about the press. What is the media, anyway, to a Chinese Communist Party apparatchik?
Now, in their own words (which sometimes employ vulgarity) these official say the media is a tool to be used: a mouthpiece, an obedient servant, and a lapdogand the expectations even seem to extend to the foreign media.
In July 2009, a reporter with China National Radio, a state-run broadcaster, was seeking to interview officials working on the Zhengzhou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, during a series of events the bureau was holding. In one of the public meetings, a citizen raised an issue with the construction project. So when the reporter finally got his chance to meet with Li Chengxiang, the deputy chief of the planning bureau at the time, he asked him about these grievances.
And then the reporter received an earful: Do you speak for the Chinese Communist Party or are you going to speak for the people? Li Chengxiang said, angrily, according to Sina, a major Chinese news portal.
The presumption was that officials with the press, in particular the state press, have a one-way responsibility: to propagandize the policies of the state.
Observant readers were quick to point out that Lis question also contains an important theoretical discrepancy: by asking whether the reporter was representing either the Party or the people, he was implying that the interests of the two diverged. While that is indeed mostly the case in China, Party doctrine states clearly that the Party is actually the ultimate representative of the people.
The press pass in many places acts as an amulet for journalists, allowing them easy entry and exit from places not usually reserved for the public. But it doesnt always work that way when dealing with Chinese officials.
In April 2010, when a reporter with the state-affiliated Legal Daily, presented his press pass to Zhang Shi, a public resource official in Zhejiang Province, Zhang simply said: This is useless.
The reporter pressed further. Why do I have to accept your interview? Zhang responded. I refuse to be interviewed. And you cant do jack about it.
Li asked How could it be useless? Its issued by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the agency that is in charge of media control. The arguing did him no good, however.
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Memes from the NSW election campaign. Photo: Supplied
Cats and politics. Not a usual association but it didn't stop NSW Labor from pairing the two on its Facebook page, with cat pictures captioned "Cuts to hospitals? You've got to be kitten me", and "Mike Baird says prices won't go up LOL".
Such is electioneering in 2015.
Both Labor and the Coalition have invested heavily in social media this campaign. For the first time, the state parties hired agencies to focus solely on digital advertising.
But is the NSW poll shaping up as the election in which social media campaigns play a decisive role? Once again the answer is: probably not.
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Five years after the 2010 federal poll was declared "the social media election", experts say there is little evidence that "likes" lead to seats. At the same time, they say many politicians remain too guarded online to be considered "authentic".
It is a case of no social-media risk, no social-media reward. But can politicians, in this age of absolute image control, ever really let their digital selves go?
NSW Liberal Party director Tony Nutt says "an election or two ago social media was just another billboard", whereas now it needs to be "deeper", "more complex" and specialised.
Memes for Facebook or Twitter are far quicker to make than traditional ads, allowing for greater experimentation. But Deloitte Digital's lead partner Frank Farrall warns that whatever the content, "you can't really control your message on social media".
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Is Emilio Azcarraga Jean set to become the king of media in the Americas?
The looming IPO of U.S. Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications Univision Communications has put the focus on a consortium of private equity firms that could be in for a big payday, but the person probably best set up to profit from it is Emilio Azcarraga Jean, the billionaire who controls Televisa. While regulations barring foreign ownership of media assets has limited his control over Televisa, Azcarrga Jean controls nearly 40% of Univision taking into account direct and indirect ownership. Hes also one of the broadcasters main providers of contents, earning his Mexico-based Televisa rich fees which could increase in tandem with the ever-growing Latino population of the United States. Soon enough, Azcarraga Jean could become the king of Spanish media in the U.S. And the way things are going, simply, the king of all media.
Univision hired a group of banks including some Wall Street heavyweights to explore a public offering expected for the second half of 2015 which aims to raise more than $1 billion at a $20 billion valuation that includes debt, a report by Reuters revealed on Tuesday. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank will be responsible for the IPO of Univision, which according to Moodys generated $2.9 billion in sales last year.
Univision Communications Univision Communications is one of the countrys largest broadcasters, sometimes beating English-language giants like ABC, CBS CBS, NBC, and Fox Fox during primetime, according to the FT. And the future looks even rosier: according to U.S. Census Bureau, there were roughly 54 million Hispanics living in the U.S. in 2013, or 17% of the total population. That figure is set to rise to 128.8 million by 2060, they estimate, or about 31%.
Univision is right there to profit from it. According to Fitch Ratings, Univision benefits from a premier industry position, with duopoly television and radio stations in most of the top Hispanic markets, with a national overlay of broadcast and cable networks. They indicate Univisions EBITDA margin is between 38% and 40%, which translates to as much as $1.16 billion.
That puts Azcarraga Jeans Televisa in a position to continue to make bank from the U.S. Their latest annual report, for 2013, shows they made at least 5.15% of their revenue from Univision, where they reveal they control 38% of the company. As I wrote in 2010, the deal inked by Azcarraga Jean and Univisions management only increased the U.S. companys reliance on the self-proclaimed largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, feeding more of Televisas soap operas and other programs into Univisions platforms. It also cleared up some legal issues pertaining to digital distribution, which is expected to continue growing as more and more users access content through smartphones and tablets; today, Univision derives 5% of their revenues from digital.
Azcarraga Jean had actually tried to buy Univision in 2006, but was outbid by a group led by Saban Capital along with Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity, Thomas H. Lee Partners, and TPG Capital, which took it private for $12.3 billion. As is the norm, they loaded the company up with debt, which stood at $10.5 billion by the end of 2014.
Univisions IPO could be one of the largest media offerings in the past several years, and it could help make the private equity consortium, along with Azcarraga Jean (collectively Broadcast Media Partners) very rich returns on their investment. The real opportunity, though, is for the Mexican billionaire, who could use the capital to double-down on the U.S. which could soon become the largest Spanish-speaking market in the world. If demographic trends prove to be true, it could also give Azcarraga Jean a stranglehold on Spanish-language media cross the continent, making him the media king of the Americas, from Alaska to Argentina.
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Univision's IPO Could Make Mexican Billionaire Emilio Azcarraga Jean The King Of American Media