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This is the programme about a revolution in media.

Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.

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The Media Show: 25/08/2010

25/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, 25/08/2010

'The Web is Dead', or so claims the editor in chief of Wired magazine.

'The Web is Dead', or so claims the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. Steve Hewlett finds out what he really meant.

"The Web is Dead," or so said Chris Anderson editor in Chief of new media's stone tablet Wired magazine. Not the internet - that is alive and well - but the web as we know it. His article sparked quite a response much of it claiming he was simply wrong. Steve Hewlett finds out whether he meant what he said.

The South African government wants to bring in tighter controls over the media but critics claim "it's the most serious threat (to press freedom) since the persecution of the Apartheid regime". Steve hears from Peter Bruce editor of the South Africa daily Business Day and Moloto Mothapo from the ANC party.

On Friday the BBC's Director General Mark Thompson will give the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. In the same speech last year James Murdoch described the corporation's size and ambitions as "chilling" and claimed it was "incapable of distinguishing between what is good for it, and what is good for the country." So how will he respond? Peter Bazalgette and Gillian Reynolds (Radio Critic at the Telegraph) discuss. 

And just how much can "auto-tuning" do...?

The producer is Joe Kent.

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