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
There was — what was his name? — the speaker of the US House of Representatives. He made it into the global news once a year when he stood behind the president who was giving his state of the union speech.
Well, there is a new speaker of the House and here [...]
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
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 [...]
