Al Jazeera’s English-language website has a very good interview with Alastair Crooke, a former official with Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, who has the same opinions that I do about the causes and possible solutions to the tensions and conflicts between Islamic and the Western countries.
(The original was released on PR Newswire this morning.)
TV Search Provider Critical Mention Inks Marketing Partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
MacNeil/Lehrer Expands Paid Distribution Opportunities and Extends Brand Through Partnership With Critical Mention
New York – April 26, 2005 – Critical Mention, Inc., the leading Web-based television search and monitoring service for corporate communications and business intelligence professionals, today announced a marketing partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, producers of the PBS program NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Under the agreement, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions will receive a partnership fee based on the usage of clips from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer within Critical Mention’s TV search services. This relationship underlines Critical Mention’s commitment to partnering with the world’s most prominent broadcast and cable news providers to help them expand their content distribution and generate revenue in online applications.
“Besides providing business and government leaders with the most comprehensive online TV search service available today, it is our goal to extend the model to enable content producers and broadcasters to participate in the explosive revenue opportunities of aggregated video search.” said Sean Morgan, CEO of Critical Mention. “We look forward to providing MacNeil/Lehrer Productions with new revenue opportunities as video search and related services become pervasive online.”
Close to 3 million people tune in to The NewsHour each weeknight (1.1 HH rating) and close to 8 million unduplicated viewers watch at least one night a week. In addition, the Erdos & Morgan Opinion Leader survey ranks The NewsHour first among all television news programs as the most credible, most objective, most influential and most current news program on television.
“People look to the NewsHour to get the full story and information about what’s going on in the world. We’re very pleased to have Critical Mention distributing our program to corporate and government organizations in a new way,” said Dan Werner, president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
About Critical Mention
Critical Mention Inc., the most comprehensive Web-based television search and broadcast monitoring service, is changing the way corporate communications and business intelligence professionals search, track and view critical information from television news. The company’s CriticalTV platform provides real-time monitoring and email alerts for organizations that require up-to-the-minute news about their company, customers and competitors. CriticalTV allows users to easily find a video clip online immediately after its broadcast; instantly share the clip within a workgroup via secure video-email or a private video gallery; and order a professional transcript or hard copy online. Critical Mention currently serves more than 150 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and market leaders in corporate communications, financial services, professional services, non-profit and government industries. Founded in 2002, Critical Mention (www.criticalmention.com) is privately held, with headquarters in New York City.
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PR Contact:
Liz Bazini
Connors Communications
Tel: 212-798-1433
Email: liz@connors.com
Broadcaster Relations Contact:
Vin Crosbie
Critical Mention, Inc.
Tel: 212-398-1141
Email: vcrosbie@criticalmention.com
As a native New Englander, I was relieved to hear U.S. National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel reveal the tragedy in Vermont.
A ruling Monday by U.S. Federal Judge Joyce Hens Green, who was called back from retirement in order to adjudicate the civil rights of the 550 alleged terrorist detainees the Bush Administration is holding at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:
Green is allowing the Bush Administration to appeal her ruling that its actions are unconstitutional. She specifically ruled that hearings set up by the government to determine if the prisoners are “enemy combatants” are unconstitutional. Those hearings, called Combatant Status Review Tribunals, had been criticized by civil rights groups because detainees are not represented by lawyers and are not told of some of the evidence against them
Oops, looks like somebody in the state government pressed the wrong button!
Finding online radio stations whose broadcasts don’t have overbearing advertising or fund-raising breaks has long been one of my quests. For many years, I’ve been daily listening to the superb ClassicFM, which is broadcast from London. However, I’ve recently found SpecialRadio, which is broadcast from Moscow and has no advertising or fund-raising breaks. It has a wonderful playlist. For those of you who don’t read Russian, here is the live audio link.
A new year and a new weblog!