Thursday, December 16, 2010

"M. Sarkozy évoque la création d'un conseil du numérique français" - Le Monde

The President is announcing a new council to deal with electronic/digital media issues.

"Italy - Court Upholds Convictions of Americans in Kidnapping Case" - NYTimes.com

I wonder how this is being covered around the Mediterranean.

"Italy’s Crisis of Confidence" - NYTimes.com

It's too bad that it requires a good deal of extra effort to read what the Italian papers are saying about all of this.

Monday, November 22, 2010

"World's 10 Fattest Countries"

Note that Egypt and Greece ar on this top ten list, the only Mediterranean countries to be included.

Friday, October 29, 2010

"Berlusconi Faces Public Discontent Over Italy’s Trash Crisis" - NYTimes.com

One of the programs that we need to launch at the Mediterranean Media Center is on trash! Quite seriously. Marseille is buried in the stuff and will spend a half million euros just to clean itself up. Naples seems perpetually to be swimming in it and we need to look at this issue from a Mediterranean perspective, and look for creative ways in which the media can play a more informative and constructive role in reporing about these issues and bringing information and perspectives to an interested public.