The random ramblings and snippets of culture that I find interesting enough to post and share. *Any views expressed or support given is purely personal opinion.
Tarantism: A disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to dance. Unusual words rendered in bold, beautiful graphics.
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Might have to see what this is all about.
Paragraph three has a little something that may have made the publisher of the Greenville, S.C., News get a serious case of indigestion. (thanks Charles Apple)
uh ohs. I don’t think that’s proper AP Style.
Not honorable, not reportable with a clear conscience. It seems impossible to imagine a press like in WWII, the kind who didn’t report on FDR’s worsening condition out of respect and because they were asked not to. What does this kind of vulturous, hearsay journalism add into the public dialogue? Is there a single positive thing that can come of reporting political leaders’ candid conversations? It’s out of context and not our business, and I’m very frustrated at the lack of ethics here.
I am aware that some could say it’s the politicians and leaders who are acting inappropriately and shouldn’t say things that might embarrass them. But there has to be some level of frankness that goes on between them, they can’t be in perfect smiling silence all the time, there must be some real human interaction between leaders, otherwise we get nowhere. We might as well have robots for leaders. They are due an amount of respect and that is not being seen here. Using an overheard, offhand comment to embarrass them, and most likely cause major setbacks in the global discourse and peace talks, it’s not worth whatever tabloid style-attention is gained. -shannonmariesmith
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Published November 08, 2011
| Associated Press
PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has labored to improve French relations with Israel, said he “can’t stand” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called him a liar in a chat with President Barack Obama.
The conversation between Sarkozy and Obama was overheard by reporters last week at the Group of 20 summit in southern France, via headsets that were to be used for simultaneous translation of an upcoming news conference.
In the remarks Thursday in Cannes, Sarkozy said: “Netanyahu, I can’t stand him. He’s a liar.”
The journalists heard only fragments of the leaders’ conversation.
Obama, whose remarks were heard via a French translation, was not heard objecting to Sarkozy’s characterization of Netanyahu. Through the interpreter, Obama was heard asking Sarkozy to help persuade the Palestinians to stop their efforts to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.
Several French-speaking journalists, including one from The Associated Press, overheard the comments but did not initially report them because Sarkozy’s office had asked the journalists not to turn on the headsets until the press conference began, and the comments were deemed private under French media traditions.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/08/sarkozy-overheard-telling-obama-cant-stand-netanyahu/#ixzz1d7wsMObb
The Guardian’s interesting and revealing piece on the occupy protestor’s choice of the Guy Fawkes mask. (Although I liked that movie! and this article hates on it a bit, but that’s ok).
Read it all here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/occupy-movement-guy-fawkes-mask
“Carnivals can turn into revolutions, like a notorious carnival that became a masked civic war in 16th-century France. But they usually don’t. In fact, the real meaning of the mask is that modern protest is sophisticated, self-knowing, and cunning. It does not necessarily show its true face – and it does not necessarily want or expect too much. The world is being shaken by protests against the excesses of finance, but this is not a revolution – it is a carnival. That does not make it false, but wise. Real revolution is bloody and cruel and mad. A carnival is entertaining and opens up questions that cannot usually be asked. Guy Fawkes has become the king of a carnival of questions. Far from being sinister, his mask is a jokey icon of festive citizenship.”
Libya: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting
As Col Muammar Gaddafi’s power “crumbled”, the three-time Royal Television Society (RTS) journalist of the year, reported live from the back of a pickup truck as rebels advanced towards the centre of the city.
The rolling news channel’s “special correspondent”, wearing a flak jacket and helmet, sat among rebels as gunfire echoed in the background in “celebration” at the imminent fall of the dicator’s regime.
In stark contrast, the BBC only aired file footage from the outskirts of the capital that appeared to have been shot during the late afternoon.
Later, when the official Libyan spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, spoke to reporters in Tripoli, Sky was several minutes ahead of the BBC in carrying the press conference live.
Meanwhile, several hours later Crawford appeared was in the capital’s Green Square as rebels fired guns in the air and Gaddafi posters were pulled down. She appeared to be the only western reporter at the location.
Sky News sources told The Daily Telegraph that the astonishing footage from the streets of Tripoli was produced using an Apple Mac Pro laptop computer connected to a mini-satellite dish that was charged by a car cigarette lighter socket.Sources also confirmed that the cameraman accompanying her, Garwen Mclukie, was celebrating his birthday on Sunday.
A second cameraman Jim Foster and producer Andy Marsh were also with the pair.
During her dramatic live reporting Crawford, a married mother of four, told viewers that rebels appeared to be travelling through the city without any resistance from pro-Gaddafi forces.
At one stage her name was the “trending” on Twitter around the world, meaning she was one of the most talked about subjects on the microblogging site across the globe.
Commentators also praised her coverage while users on Twitter criticised the BBC’s coverage of the rise up.
Others defended the corporation and its hard-working journalists who were reporting from extremelly dangerous locations and under extraordinary conditions.
Crawford, 48, has reported from all over the world, and has spent the past few years in the broadcaster’s Dubai bureau before recently moving to its Johannesburg base.
According to her Sky News profile, Crawford started out at the Wokingham Times before moving to the BBC and later TV-am. She joined Sky News in its first year in 1989.
Last year, in a profile piece, she wrote: “I have four children – Nat, aged 14, Frankie, Madeleine, aged 10, and seven-year-old Flo – and a very long-suffering partner, Richard, who is also a journalist.
“Because of this, there is grudging acceptance in our house that I have to go to places most people would never dream of going, nor ever want to.”
A Sky News spokeswoman said: “Alex Crawford has once again proved that she is an exceptional journalist.
“Her reporting throughout the Libyan conflict has been world-class.” A BBC spokeswoman declined to comment.
- Telegraph
6:30AM BST 22 Aug 2011
Wow. What a journalist! Inspiring and tough.
