Agustus 2008


Salam

sebenarnya harus seperti apa sikap kita terhadap lingkungan di sekitar Daarut Taubah ( Atau yang lebih dikenal sebagai saritem. Lokalisasi terbesar dan terkenal di kota Bandung) ?

sepertinya dibukanya mereka tidak menjadi masalah. Ternyata ditutup pun tidak masalah. Yang masalah adalah ketika mereka jadi korban politik. Dibuka saat kampanye. diudak dan ditutup saat kekuasaan sudah berada di genggaman tangan..

But How to Define Quality?

It is both difficult and controversial to try to define, much less quantify,

the journalistic excellence that Knight’s creed described

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HOW A DEMOCRACY DECIDES

Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, newspapers,

and to a lesser extent network television news, constituted the

agora in which American public life, including political life, began its

sorting-out process. The shared information they provided helped

lead to public judgments about important matters. Not everyone read

the same newspapers or watched the same newscasts, and not everyone

gave them the same level of attention and interest, but virtually

every citizen was exposed on a regular basis to the news of the day.

As a result, citizens were able to reach the public judgments that

informed, instructed, and validated the actions of their government

representatives, elected or otherwise. Absent public judgment, that is

to say when no rough consensus can be reached, important issues

remain unresolved.

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From the book of Knightfall

Knight Ridder and How the
Erosion of Newspaper Journalism
Is Putting Democracy at Risk

karya: David Merritt

We . . . do not sacrifice either principles or quality on the altar of the countinghouse.

— John S. Knight

ON ONE OF those delightfully fresh South Florida fall mornings,

Jim Batten is moved to get out of his office to start our conversation.

‘‘Let’s take a ride,’’ he said to an old friend of a dozen years, so

we left through the sixth-floor double doors freshly plated with a

new name, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Inc., picked up his car in the

parking garage, and turned onto Biscayne Boulevard, heading north

away from The Miami Herald building.

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BANDUNG, (PR).-
Sanggar seni di Babakan Siliwangi (Baksil), Kota Bandung diminta segera pindah ke Pasar Seni, Jln. Tamansari, yang telah selesai dibangun PT Esa Gemilang Indah (PT EGI). Permintaan pindah itu, terkait projek pembangunan rumah makan oleh PT EGI akan segera dimulai. Kepala Dinas Pariwisata Kota Bandung, H.M. Askary mengatakan hal itu, saat ditemui di sela-sela pembukaan Festival Kuliner India di Hotel Horison, Bandung, Senin (25/8).

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oleh: Agus Rakasiwi

Bisnis media menghadapi dilema. Kehadiran pemodal besar diyakini bisa menormalkan keuangan, tapi di sisi lain menjadi “Dewa” yang sukar ditentang.

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