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Friday Apr 25, 2008
A Love-Hate Relationship: When Old Meets New
In this mini-series, we explore how old media covers new media issues. First up, we look at the Daily Mail who seem keen for us to see the internet as a highly dangerous and sinister environment whether it's health, money, sex, education, you name it - it's one bad place to be.
Here's some headlines from the last couple of years.
Internet addiction 'should be recognised as a clinical disorder
Internet addiction is a serious public health problem and should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder, a psychiatrist claims.
Sorry, you can't have the internet... you're over 70
After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet ...
Jailed terrorists are using the internet to contact supporters...
Terror suspects held at one of Britain's most secure jails are secretly accessing the internet to contact ...
School's bizarre ploy to beat internet perverts - masking pupils...
A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website – apparently to protect them from ...
Coroner launches probe into 'internet suicide cult' after SEVEN ...
A coroner yesterday launched an investigation into the link between the internet and young suicides - as an MP hit out at websites for ...
Menace of the internet sites urging teenagers to starve
Children surfing the internet are being targeted by thousands of ... not go far enough and called for the groups' web pages to be removed. ...
How one in four teenagers has met a stranger on the internet
Ninety per cent had access to the internet at home. But few of those interviewed said they use the Web to help with their homework or studies. ...
The internet is destroying the world as we know it
For those unfamiliar with such terms, Web 2.0 is the name given by the computer industry to the "second generation" of the internet that has now been made ...
How the web stole our children: Chilling report reveals under-16s...
"Rob and I are at our wits' end on how to stop Daniel using the internet as much as ... Millions are left to surf the web on their own, with six out of ten ...
Sex pills drive rise in illegal internet chemists
Britain is now the second-largest host of unlicensed internet chemists ... said the web boom was worth at least £2 billion annually for six ...
Internet credit card fraud 'up to £500m a year'
UK credit card and debit card fraud on the internet is much greater than ... Earlier this month a report by web security company Symantec revealed that bank ...
Entwistle 'trawled internet for escort girls'
Neil Entwistle tried to find women through internet escort services, police sources revealed last night.
The classroom 'cancer risk' of wi-fi internet
Britain's top health watchdog has called for an inquiry into the use of wireless Internet networks in schools because of concerns they could ...
The world of real party animals: The internet gatecrashers who ...
Not if more recent internet postings are anything to by: "Yeahh it ... for the characters, and web-only mini episodes have been screened. ...
I bought my baby on the internet
You know how it is with shopping on the internet - the sheer ... Desperate to become a mother, she spent night after night surfing the web. ...
Google is watching you! The internet colossus is amassing an...
Virtual Global Taskforce Internet Safety .... Under this Big Brother-ish concept, the details of every web search we launch and every e-mail ...
YouTube massacre: Schoolboy gunman posts threat on the internet...
The internet video phenomenon: Giving killers a voice in the world of ... Eric Harris, and the same track was on Auvinen's web posting. ...
Downloads of Net porn hit record high
Yesterday, the Internet Watch Foundation, the online child abuse watchdog, warned the popularity of Web porn is leading more people into ...
Web will transport two million Brits to their Oz convict cousins...
Virtual Global Taskforce Internet Safety ... Web will transport two million Brits to their Oz convict cousins ...
Madeleine's parents subjected to 'spiteful' internet hate campaign...
The parents of Madeleine McCann have become the subject of a hate campaign on the internet.
School's bizarre ploy to beat internet perverts - masking pupils...
Virtual Global Taskforce Internet Safety .... but putting children's pictures on the web in any context these days has to be thought through ...
Grandfather builds gun-toting robot from Internet and kills...
A grandfather who wanted to end his life built himself a gun-toting robot with plans downloaded from the Internet and used it to kill ...
Probe launched after air stewardess performs topless mid-air...
The video was leaked onto the internet by members of the French crew and has sparked a major probe at several European airlines to discover ...
With all that danger, they have their own online safety guide:
Internet safety for you and your family
How can you keep you and your family safe online? Follow our guide.
But at least there are funny curiosities as well:
The piano-playing cat who caused an internet sensation
The latest star to shoot out of YouTube knows the benefit of practice to make you purrfect.
And finally, at least it's not all doom and gloom. There was one upbeat story involving the internet:
Queen becomes instant internet sensation after launching royal...
The Queen's YouTube channel has become a surprise internet hit, with almost 400000 people watching it in its first two days.
