YouTube launched in February 2005. By the summer of 2006 it was delivering 2 to 2.5 billion views a month. That made it a very big deal. In October Google purchased it for $1.65 billion. With the Google imprimatur and that volume of delivery the media world began to take it seriously. The silly video [...]
The standard view: YouTube is for 14 to 24 year olds whose primary interest is in silly or gross video clips. Why should one take YouTube seriously as a delivery of global news? Because video broadcasting is remaking itself one more time.
Once upon a time there were three networks. If you wanted to watch TV [...]
March 29, 2007 – 12:06 am
by Bob Boynton
The Arab League met in summit at Riyadh. The business was re-invigorating the peace process. US Secretary of State Rice seems determined to get some motion — going to the Saudis to encourage them to become active produced the meeting and King Abdullah re-tabled the 2000 Arab initiative that Israel has summarily dismissed [...]
March 22, 2007 – 11:54 pm
by Bob Boynton
The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon went to Iraq — unannounced, of course. Unannounced is the way all foreign dignitaries visit Iraq these days.
This is what he was told by prime minister Maliki
“We consider it [the visit] a positive message to world in which you [Ban] confirm that Baghdad has returned to [...]
by Bob Boynton
I can write Osama with confidence that anyone who happens by will know who I have in mind. That is quite remarkable for a man who was unknown before the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Now, only 9 years later, he is such a well known figure that [...]
by Bob Boynton
This is a two-fer. It is about one of the elements it takes for both sides of the line to work. It is also about coverage by media organizations. The two are joined in a murderous event in Afghanistan.
The event: on March 5, 2007 a convoy of US troops in Afghanistan was attacked [...]
by Bob Boynton
This is it — number 50.
When I started I did not know how far it would go. It has gotten to 50. This is the 50th blog entry at Globalizing News.
It has been going for 15 weeks. That is an average of 3.3 entries per week. Since I was on holiday at Christmas [...]
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by Bob Boynton
Aljazeera English had a report from the Taliban side of the line, and BBC World had breaking news about a planned British movement of more soldiers into the contested province. It was both sides of the line by duet.
News organizations that aspire to a global audience — as do Aljazeera English, BBC World, [...]
by Bob Boynton
Palestinian leaders discuss unity — the headline of Aljazeera, in English.
The president and the prime minister sat down to iron out their difficulties. It had been a difficult period leading to Fatah and Hamas supporters shooting at each other.
Aljazeera, in Arabic, and Aljazeera, in English, both reported the beginning of a rapprochement. [...]
February 20, 2007 – 1:36 am
by Bob Boynton
There are times when the photographs do most of the work — see
But there are times when the work is in the headlines. Here is a photograph from Aljazeera English.
They met. They photo-oped. Negotiations must be going well. At least that is the implication of the smiles and handclasps. The headline is
“No [...]
