World Economic Forum

'This week the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Media Tenor is there participating and covering the event for Mediachannel.org. We will be featuring updates and research gathered for the forum here everyday this week.
During this year’s forum a unique study on dialogue between Islam and the West will be released. The results present empirical proof demonstrating the disastrous stage of distrust between both cultures. The research team for the study consisted of Media Tenor, Gallup and Georgetown-University. Mediachannel has published parts of the study in a three-part series. You can view Part I here and Part II here.

UPDATE 1: January 23, 2008By Roland Schatz, Media Tenor
Desire For Death or On Media’s Hunger For Catastrophe
Davos, Switzerland: Driving up to Davos one still had in mind the TV news on the breakdown of the financial markets. Journalists couldn’t be fast enough in comparing the fall of stocks to other historical peaks like 9/11 or the moment when the Internet bubble was understood as a bubble. On German public service network ZDF their correspondent from Frankfurt stock exchange was recommending on air to the audience of ZDF to sell shares as the current situation would be worse than 9/11. Driving up to Davos to the World Economic Forum one was bombarded on radio with the same horror scenarios. Journalists refused to be contacted on concrete unique projects presented in the forefront of Davos, “We have no time – the collapse of the stock markets is the only story of interest to us.” Did anybody explain to them the “self-fulfilling-prophecy” effects done by selective news reporting? Didn’t they read their own reports a few weeks ago when they were praising the ongoing strength of the BRIC States and the so-called next 11? Didn’t they hear last week in DC the official politicians declaring huge support for US economy – as no government on earth is not tempted to through extra budgets to voters valets? Didn’t they listen to their colleagues from the business section who permanently report on companies like Boeing, Airbus or the whole machine industry, who are booked out for complete 2008 and far into 2009? So, arriving in Davos and remembering the other stories written and published on the state of the economy one feels better informed than just following the stock-markets prophets.
More to come tomorrow when the CEO’s from all continents arrive here in the sunny and snowy Swiss Alps meeting heads of states, NGO leaders and scholars from all over the world – exchanging their thoughts on the state of the world and not only on stock markets…'

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