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 [...]
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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February 25, 2007 – 1:17 am
by Bob Boynton
News organizations that aspire to a global audience want to be on both sides of the line. The classic case is CNN reporting from Baghdad when the first Bush president was bombing. It made the reputation of the station. They had the only reporter in town, and he was broadcasting from his hotel [...]
January 7, 2007 – 5:23 pm
by Bob Boynton
The exact quotation is:
Riz Kahn says the principal U.S. objection to al-Jazeera is that it has been too frank in its reporting on American military power, but he contends that holding the powerful to account is nothing to be ashamed of. American news channels tend to “show the missiles taking off,” Kahn says. [...]
December 31, 2006 – 12:43 am
by Bob Boynton
“Iraqi and Iranian authorities slammed the United States on Monday for having arrested several Iranians who were visiting Iraq. [CNN World, December 25, 2006]
CNN World began their report on the arrest with this strong first sentence. The US was slammed.
Aljazeera [English] began their report on the same event with a rather more measured [...]
December 7, 2006 – 11:34 am
by Bob Boynton
Prime minister al-Maliki met with President Bush, which, as always, produced a burst of photographic energy. Every news outlet needed photos of the event.
But Aljazeera [English] and Aljazeera [Arabic] did something rather unusual: they used the same photograph of the two leaders.
This is the photo from Aljazeera [English]
And this is the photo that [...]
December 2, 2006 – 1:37 am
by Bob Boynton
If there are three news organizations are there three different events of the day? Aljazeera [English], BBC World and CNN World all aspire to a global audience. But there is more than one way to construct a global audience. So, what are the top stories for the three news organizations?
CNN World
BBC World
Aljazeera [English]
Huge [...]
November 16, 2006 – 1:40 am
by Bob Boynton
These are busy days for Aljazeera [English]. Their new television channel opened up for business. It has been a long time in coming. But they say there are 80 million viewers for the channels that carry them around the world.
These are busy days for me, as well. Today I am off for London [...]
November 14, 2006 – 10:36 pm
by Bob Boynton
News organizations like pictures, and color photographs are the pride of news websites. What they do not tell you is that the picture they put on the page is one selected from a very large number. Ergo they are very likely to choose a picture that the editor believes illuminates the words they [...]
November 12, 2006 – 7:03 am
by Bob Boynton
If you want to write about globalizing news and global audiences, as I do, getting a handle on local and global is something you need to do. What should be counted as local and what should be counted as global?
We had a congressional election in the US in 2006.
Aljazeera, both English and Arabic, [...]
