Listeners will be able to search every station on the UK Radioplayer network, identifying news programmes, sports highlights, musical genres or even individual songs, using a new search engine designed for radio.
Because of the net, the Chinese people have never been more active or effective in identifying news and participating in public opinions.
In 2005, Judith Miller, then a reporter for The Times, was jailed for nearly three months after she initially refused to identify news sources in an investigation of leaks that identified a covert C.I.A. operative.
While gunmen separated Muslims and non-Muslims inside the shopping mall, executing the latter, Kenya's social media adopted the Twitter hashtag "we are one" to identify news on the crisis.
Identifying news coverage of the Tea Party protests by searching for the term "tea party" in conjunction with "demonstration," "protest" or "rally," and adjusting the figures in a manner similar to that for the Wall Street protests, finds that they produced 769 media hits on April 15 , 2009 and 1,016 the next day — more than in any single day for the Wall Street protests.
DAB radio needs to prove it is the technology of the future and not an expensive white elephant, and the UK Radioplayer will launch – a joint venture between the BBC and commercial stations that allows internet users to listen to more than 400 commercial and BBC stations, identifying news programmes, sports highlights and even individual songs.
In addition, the database Lexis-Nexis was searched to identify news and magazine reports.
When asked from what sources they regularly get campaign news, 36 percent of respondents identified cable news; 32 percent identified local TV news; and 26 percent identified network news, Pew said.
A new Gizmodo report saying Facebook shelved a planned update earlier this year that could have identified fake news because it would disproportionately demote right-wing news outlets.
When those who said they first turned to television identified specific news outlets, 8percentt said the turned to Fox News while 7percentt said they turned to CNN.
