Category Archives: United Kingdom

Stand up and fight like real men

by Bob Boynton
The thing was the crazy colonists wouldn’t fight like real men. They hid behind trees. They refused to form a line and duke it out.
Okay, that was then. We — the militaries of the world — have learned better in 200 years. Right?
An Isaf spokeswoman told the BBC there had been no [...]

This is 50

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 [...]

No roaming charges

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 [...]

Mr. Blair Made Remarkable

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 [...]