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
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
As CNN phrased it — the military judge quashed the defense of lieutenant Watada. According to the judge he could not defend his refusal to go to Iraq on the basis that it is an illegal war nor could he defend his public statements against the war on the grounds of freedom of [...]
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 [...]
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
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
