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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
by Bob Boynton
There are days when the juxtaposition is overwhelming!
We think of news media as presenting a disconnected batch of news reports. We focus on ‘the story’ rather than the collection of stories. But there are times when it is the entire collection of stories that is hard to escape. We just cannot keep [...]
by Bob Boynton
The president spoke and in the ‘instant communication’ of the contemporary world Aljazeera [English], BBC World, and CNN World reported within an hour. Of course, they, and everyone else in the know, knew what he was going to say. They could have written the reports in advance and made them public upon his [...]
by Bob Boynton
What was it everyone thought they learned from the ‘last’ war? Vietnam, the war that ended as unsuccessfully as Mr. Bush’s Iraq war has played itself out, ended with a unanimous chant?
For twenty-five years all one heard was: no military adventure without “a well developed exit strategy.”
This is a man without an exit [...]
