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On The Listening Post this week, the media coverage - both local and national - of the Honduran elections, and the World Press Photo Awards 2009.

We start our show this week with a look at the recent elections in Honduras.

On November 29, voters in the central American country went to the polls, electing a new president, Porfirio Lobo, from the National Party.

It was no ordinary election. The previously elected president, Manuel Zelaya, was thrown out of office in a military coup in June. The coup leaders installed their man, Roberto Micheletti, in the job.

Neither Zelaya nor Roberto Micheletti was on the ballot. Regional powers Brazil and Argentina are refusing to recognise the election as legitimate - but the US is.

That is the politics - but there is a big media angle to this story.

Across Latin America, the political left and right are battling for power. The media are central to this fight and have had a huge influence on how news stories - like that of the coup in Tegucigalpa - have been told.

World Press Photo Awards 2009

In part two of The Listening Post, Meenakshi Ravi goes to the World Press Photo Awards 2009 show in London, and takes a look at the work of some of the world's best photographers.

Judges on the panel this year received 96,268 submissions for the competition - from which they chose 63 finalists - but only one winner.

The award-winning photograph was taken by Anthony Suau, and depicts a man in a uniform, wielding a gun, making his way carefully through an apparently empty house.

The photo is not from a war zone, and it is not a drug bust, but the fallout from the global recession.

In this week's Newsbytes: a new Iraqi TV channel celebrates the memory of Saddam Hussein, an attempted assassination is carried out on an Iraqi journalist, two journalists are released from Somalia after 15 months in captivity, and The Washington Post is shutting down all of its US bureaux outside of the DC area. 

Finally, seven million hits on YouTube, in less than a week - that is the kind of web traffic that gets our attention. This video is a viral phenomenon, but only the medium is new.

It is by the Muppets, the late Jim Henson's troupe - who are celebrating their 40th anniversary. And they have done it with their version of a 34-year-old song.

They have gone Bohemian. They have changed the lyrics but there is no mistaking the song. The Muppet's cover a classic Queen track - and it is our web video of the week. You can see it here.

This episode of The Listening Post can be seen from Friday, December 4, at the following times GMT: Friday: 1230; Saturday: 1030, 2230; Sunday: 0300, 1930; Monday: 0030; Tuesday: 0630, 1630; Wednesday: 0130, 1430; Thursday: 0330, 2330.