January 27, 2007 – 1:47 am
by Bob Boynton
Imagine you are 500 strong and hiding in the most remote regions of your counrty. How in the world would you get Aljazeera [English] and CNN World to report on your existance and work?
Branding — we are al-Qaeda!
All you have to do is say al-Qaeda and the global media get excited. Another al-Qaeda [...]
January 25, 2007 – 11:30 pm
by Bob Boynton
President Bush delivered the state of the union address to the nation and the world on January 23, 2007. His speech was widely covered by the news media. Each of the four media outlets I follow had a report on the speech. Aljazeera [Arabic] contributed a photo of the president flanked by vice [...]
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January 25, 2007 – 12:26 am
by Bob Boynton
There was no mention of the World Social Forum on the 24th or on the 25th. However, BBC World had a report about the World Economic Forum — the alter-ego of the World Social Forum — on the 24th and the 25th. The most interesting ‘mention’ was that of Aljazeera [Arabic]
This is [...]
January 23, 2007 – 9:55 am
by Bob Boynton
There is not much more to say. There were no reports about the World Social Forum on January 23 in any of the three news sources that I am following.
January 22, 2007 – 12:29 am
by Bob Boynton
There was no further word about the World Social Forum today — midnight, my time, today.
By twelve hours ago the reports on Aljazeera [English] and BBC World had disappeared. No reports have taken their places.
CNN World is still ignoring the Forum.
January 21, 2007 – 12:26 pm
The World Social Forum is meeting in Nairobi Kenya beginning on Saturday [January 20, 2007]. According to BBC World it was “set up in 2001 as a rival to the World Economic Forum.”
Aljazeera [English] quotes one of the organizers of the conference as saying
“The WSF in Nairobi will bring Africa and Africans’ needs onto the [...]
January 18, 2007 – 1:11 am
by Bob Boynton
I know — this is not about global news media, which is what this blog is about most of the time.
But it is a nice example of the globalization of communication that we are living through.
A UK firm that sells mobile telephone time, named 3, is going to stop charging their UK customers [...]
January 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm
by Bob Boynton
Rice makes bid for Mid-East peace
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are to meet soon for a three-way summit.
US officials said the summit, announced after Ms Rice met the Israeli leader, would take place within four weeks.
The good news is there will be [...]
January 15, 2007 – 1:47 am
by Bob Boynton
Two of Saddam’s men followed him to the gallows. These are the photos used in reporting the news.
Perhaps one photographer is enough.
Aljazeera [Arabic]
Aljazeera [English]
CNN World
BBC World
Interpretation
Who knows? This is carrying similarity to the extreme.
News Reports
Aljazeera [Arabic]
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E7DBFC45-790A-48E3-AC16-9012517D43B9.htm
Aljzaeera [English]
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm
CNN World
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
BBC World
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_newsheadlines.asp?pageid=71
January 15, 2007 – 1:22 am
by Bob Boynton
Perhaps juxtapositions come in pairs. Here is one from the first page of Aljazeera [Arabic] on January 12, 2007.
The president delivered his new plan. What followed? Two days later it was these two photographs.
Evil must be personalized so we are given a photograph of bin Laden and al Zawahiri, his right hand man. [...]
