Category Archives: United States

Both sides of the line — unless it is too embarrassing

March 11, 2007 – 9:48 am

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 [...]

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This is 50

March 9, 2007 – 12:59 am

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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Slipped in and slipped out again

February 15, 2007 – 2:12 am

by Bob Boynton
Al-Zawahiri was back just in time for valentine day [February 14].

This time it was an audio tape so they had to use a photo they already had on hand. Apparently photos of al-Zawahiri are in short supply since this is the same photo they used only a few days earlier. See When Al-Zawahiri [...]

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Quashing communication

February 8, 2007 – 5:02 pm

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 [...]

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They forgot to mention

January 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm

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 [...]

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Another juxtaposition

January 15, 2007 – 1:22 am

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. [...]

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One success after another

January 12, 2007 – 9:26 am

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 [...]

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The last word

January 11, 2007 – 12:04 am

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 [...]

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Without a plan

January 10, 2007 – 10:42 pm

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 [...]

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Gitmo in the news

January 3, 2007 – 11:23 pm

by Bob Boynton
FBI: Workers saw prisoner abuse at Guantanamo, CNN World, 3:59 GMT, 484 words
FBI reports duct-taping, ‘baptizing’ at Guantanamo, Washington Post, 11:00 GMT, 791 words
FBI workers saw Guantanamo abuse, BBC World, 11:50 GMT, 437 words
FBI details Guantanamo ‘techniques’, Aljazeera [English], 16:38 GMT, 232 words
It was not the number 1 story [...]

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