guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the Tory leader wins the next election, he faces a media battle between News Corp and Google which could split his inner circleIt's the war for Cameron's ear. Greeting David Cameron, should he win the keys to 10 Downing Street next year, could be the mother of dust-ups between Google and News Corporation, two of the wor (Read More)
The Guardian:
New skills could be included in literacy lessonsPrimary school children should be taught to understand the "language" of advertisers and spin doctors to stop them becoming too susceptible to sophisticated campaigns, it has been claimed.Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at Warwick University, believes that "media litera (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
A Tory landslide seemed inevitable at the next general election. But recent soundings show a different trend as Labour benefits from optimism about the economyAlastair Campbell is not normally one to trash the state of the nation under a Labour government. But in a recent post on his blog he listed a stack of reasons to be (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silenceSeveral times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in a proper sleeping bag and with a long padded Bedouin cushion between me and the ground.Then, during (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked onlineHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online. The computer files (Read More)
The Guardian:
Rajinder Singh says he supports far-right party's anti-Islam stanceA Sikh man who has campaigned for the BNP in support of its anti-Islam stance has been put forward to be the party's first non-white member.Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s, has twice lent support to Nick Griffin during the British National party leade (Read More)
Sydney Morning Herald:
TV DIGITAL multichannels will not have to screen a minute of Australian programming, with the federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, declaring that local content rules will not apply. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• South African Runner remains eligible to compete, say IAAF• Organisation meeting to resolve decision on Semenya's futureThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) are conducting final discussions before announcing their decision on Caster Semenya's future as a female athlete.The organisation said progre (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
High-octane drama of polar bears tumbling to a bloody death may leave viewers feeling manipulated by propagandaThe high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering glass buildings, the Towers of Mammon in an unidentified urban CBD. No, this is not the opening credi (Read More)
BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst t (Read More)
Reuters: Mergers News:
FRANKFURT, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom ,
Europe's largest telecoms company, is looking for a partner for
its U.S. mobile communications business, German paper
Handelsblatt reported, citing unidentified people from the
German company.
. (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
Online auction giant eBay announced it had completed its sale of Skype to an investment group that includes the two founders of the Web communications company. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Dozens of services delayed or cancelled, but assurances given over safetyA problem with the system that collects airlines' flight plans is causing widespread cancellations and delays across the US.The country's Federal Aviation Administration could not say how many flights were affected or when the problem would be resolve (Read More)
The Guardian:
Market can achieve universal broadband without interference, argues Tory shadow culture secretary Jeremy HuntJeremy Hunt, the Conservative shadow culture secretary, has said his party would encourage telecoms companies to take the lead in the rollout of superfast broadcast services to major cities, before moving on to rural (Read More)