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Turkey diagnoses bird flu

gravitycollapse — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:09:36 +0000

I was looking at news.bbc.co.uk yesterday, as I do pretty much every day at least once, and this headline caught my eye:

Gotta love those cheeky British headline writers…

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Dumb Charts

gravitycollapse — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:37:00 +0000

I noticed this chart in an article on news.com:

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think it’s particularly helpful when “other” is basically 80-90% of the total information you are trying to illuminate…

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Moneygrubbing pigs take us back to the 1950s

gravitycollapse — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:18:26 +0000

Yesterday I was listening to England vs. Portugal on BBC5 Radio’s live Web feed. You might say, “what a triumph of technology; nowadays you can listen to radio broadcasts from around the world from home!”

That’s one way to look at it.

Here’s the problem: Here in the USA, there’s this scumbag company called Setanta which owns exclusive rights to the Euro2004 games. They have chosen to only offer the games via satellite and digital cable on PPV ($179 for the whole package or $20 a game, or via direct broadcast to pubs, where there is also a $20 cover charge! (The cover charge goes straight to Setanta.)

So, basically, it means normal Americans can’t watch these games at all.

Also, UEFA has blocked ALL web streams of the event (they don’t even offer a games stream from their own web site, though they offer a package of ‘highlights’ and bullshit I don’t care about, as I just want to watch the games.

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CNN sucks

gravitycollapse — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:33:18 +0000

Can someone please explain to me why CNN apparently is incapable of operating microphones?

Like many Americans, I’ve been glued to the news networks much more than usual, and I had always thought (or been told, anyway), that CNN was a really together network. But the production competency I’ve seen is comparable to public access.

They have more audio problems than I’ve ever seen a news network have.

And, then there’s the little problem of them basically acting as a propaganda machine, while the rest of the world’s news outlets actually report on the balance that exists in this 9/11 situation.

In typical fashion, all they report is our side of this tragedy (candlelight “vigils”, religious services, economic difficulties, etc.), and the only time Arabs appear, it is as “Islamic fundamentalist terrorists”.

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