Media
On Gayelle.com talking politics
02/06/10 20:37
Bloggers talk politics on the Gayelle.com show from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Discussing my political
blog posts with host Cedriann Martin and guest Raymond
Ramcharitar.
Both are here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/PM_plan.html and here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
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Comments
The Morning Edition after...
25/05/10 18:14
Morning Edition - Calling the 2010 election from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
A brief telephone interview with the Morning Edition's Andy Johnson about my blog post on May 19 calling the T&T election five full days before the polls opened. View the post here: http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
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Gayelle.com interview
05/04/10 21:50
Here's my appearance on the first
episode of Gayelle's new morning show, Gayelle.com, talking about
technology, natch.
Mark Lyndersay on Gayelle.com from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
My appearance as the first guest on the first show of Gayelle's new morning show, Gayelle.com which aggregates information from Internet contributors and sources.
No Behaviour Show podcast posted
01/03/10 21:49
Took
part in a lively discussion on the way the local media is adapting
to the Internet with @maxnavie @SanMan_ish and @dre7413 with lively
contributions from the Twitter and blogging community. The podcast
is available here...
No Behaviour at all
22/02/10 22:26
I
participated recently in a new podcast put together by three
members of the WITArmy (the West Indian Twitter Army) that you'll
find available for download here...
CNMG talk on technology
04/01/10 22:16
First Up technology discussion from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Derren Joseph for asking me to participate!
DEW appreciation speech
14/11/09 01:48
My
appreciation speech, given on behalf of the late artist Dunstan E
Williams on the occasion of his Media Excellence award from the
TTPBA is posted here...
MATT statement on proposed Bagoo ban
14/11/09 01:31
The Media Association of Trinidad
and Tobago posted this statement to their Facebook page. As a
courtesy, I am reposting it here for general
access.
It was with shock and dismay that the media association learned of the recommendations of the Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives with regard to Mr Andre Bagoo of the Newsday newspaper.
On finding Mr Bagoo guilty of an offence, the committee recommended not only that the newspaper publish an apology, but also that Mr Bagoo be banned from the media gallery of Parliament until the end of the session.
Matt considers this an unjustifiably harsh and highly unusual punishment.
Mr Bagoo had been accused by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal of committing a contempt of Parliament by publishing the proceedings of the Privileges Committee in another matter before those proceedings had been reported to the House.
The association admits that this publication by Newsday was indeed in breach of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
However, in previous cases involving breaches of privilege--including the case prematurely reported by Mr Bagoo, which involved Udecott--once the accused party apologises for the offence, he or she is almost invariably let off and no further action taken. It should be noted that the editor in chief of Newsday, Ms Therese Mills, appeared before the committee and apologised for breaching the Standing Orders.
In addition, in a minority report, three members of the committee disagreed with the recommendations and argued that banning a reporter contravened the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press. They asked that members of the House reject either the entire report or that recommendation.
Matt endorses this call, and now awaits with apprehension the committee’s findings in the case of two other journalists also sent to the Privileges Committee.
In light of the recommendations in the case of Mr Bagoo, Matt notes with grave concern that a pattern may be emerging of attempted intimidation, by way of the Privileges Committee, of journalists whose reporting may have embarrassed or offended the Government.
It was with shock and dismay that the media association learned of the recommendations of the Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives with regard to Mr Andre Bagoo of the Newsday newspaper.
On finding Mr Bagoo guilty of an offence, the committee recommended not only that the newspaper publish an apology, but also that Mr Bagoo be banned from the media gallery of Parliament until the end of the session.
Matt considers this an unjustifiably harsh and highly unusual punishment.
Mr Bagoo had been accused by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal of committing a contempt of Parliament by publishing the proceedings of the Privileges Committee in another matter before those proceedings had been reported to the House.
The association admits that this publication by Newsday was indeed in breach of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
However, in previous cases involving breaches of privilege--including the case prematurely reported by Mr Bagoo, which involved Udecott--once the accused party apologises for the offence, he or she is almost invariably let off and no further action taken. It should be noted that the editor in chief of Newsday, Ms Therese Mills, appeared before the committee and apologised for breaching the Standing Orders.
In addition, in a minority report, three members of the committee disagreed with the recommendations and argued that banning a reporter contravened the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press. They asked that members of the House reject either the entire report or that recommendation.
Matt endorses this call, and now awaits with apprehension the committee’s findings in the case of two other journalists also sent to the Privileges Committee.
In light of the recommendations in the case of Mr Bagoo, Matt notes with grave concern that a pattern may be emerging of attempted intimidation, by way of the Privileges Committee, of journalists whose reporting may have embarrassed or offended the Government.
Twitter on CNews
25/06/09 08:56
Soyini Grey was a delight to work with on this clip for CNews' technology segment. Smart, funny and accommodating, she allowed me to ramble on for what seemed like way too long about Twitter, traditional media and the elections in Iran.
Some thoughts that didn't make it into the final edit include...
Twitter succeeded in Iran because it was diffuse and invisible. Traditional media was easy to find, target and neutralise. Licensed, official reporters are known to the authorities, dozens of people with cellphones and laptops are not.
The authorities in Iran tried to stop information from getting out, blocking access to the preferred social media network in Iran, Friendfeed, but young people simply switched to Twitter and went on sharing links and news updates. Multiple sources of information and multiple points of access for publishing make traditional methods of information supression more difficult, if not impossible to implement.
In embracing new media, traditional media sources need to cultivate the savvy to separate misinformation from fact, opinion from reporting. Life magazine, busy reinventing itself as a source for impactful photography on the web did exactly that by making contact with a photographer who posted some of the best imagery coming out of the protests and gathering that person's work into a striking gallery.
The photographer's identity remains unknown and has since been reported missing by their family. See those images on Life's gallery here...
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Future of Media presentations available
18/05/09 21:02
On Thursday, Georgia Popplewell and I
gave presentations on the Future of Media at the Caribbean Media
and Communication Conference in Grenada. The presentation slides in
PDF format and an audio recording courtesy of George Grant
can be downloaded here...
Getting invited
17/12/07 23:53
Holding
onto your integrity, along with your dignity, at a Christmas party
should be higher on the media agenda. Read More...
9/10
09/09/07 23:41
George's best joke
26/03/07 19:30
Whenever
I think of George, I remember the joke that made me an admirer of
his wit. Read More...
Wither, man?
01/03/07 19:29