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Children and the Media

nospam@example.com (Alex Har) — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:04:15 +0800

In his message for the 41st World Communication Day, Pope Benedict addressed the issue of "Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education" and called upon the media industry, communicators including direct marketers, audiences, readers, parents and schools, to help meet the challenge.

Taking a realistic approach the pontiff acknowledged that

Indeed, some claim that the formative influence of the media rivals that of the school, the Church, and maybe even the home. Reality, for many, is what the media recognize as real

He urged the world, media professionals, media, marketing, direct marketing industry, parents, schools, churches and audiences to view this challenge and recognize heir responsibilities from two perspectives:

1. Formation of children by the media, and
2. Formation of children to respond appropriately to the media.

More discussion may be found at ONE1-DM website

On line Media getting Hot

nospam@example.com (Alex Har) — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:52:42 +0800

On-line media is certainly getting hot in most first world countries and with Singapore entering this category of nations, things will hot up here.

Recently SINGAPORE : Channelnewsasia.com has been named the top website for a television channel in Singapore for the second year running by Hitwise, a company that monitors online visits.

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What is the next wave and are we riding on the right wave

nospam@example.com (Alex Har) — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:14:00 +0800

There is so much talk about the media revolution..... new media, digital media, personalised media, soclal media with content generated by users or members and not by professional journalists. In Asia, traditional TV networks continue continues to rule the media scene...but for how long?

MNCs that have experienced the power of new media in their home countries will inevitably push for such media deployment. In a borderless world Asian Media owners and Media agencies will risk losing business to those in more developed countries if they do not react quickly to develop the capabilities to adequately serve these MNCs and other progressive Asian businesses that desire to exploit these new media.