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Utilizing Two of the Characteristics of Google: Google Maps and Google Information
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Tsunami warning on a sport news
I forgot to upload this picture from 16th August 2007, when a massive earthquake hit Peru. I heard that it was such a huge quake and switched the TV on, but it was a "sport and entertainment news" which showed "Becks on the LA Galaxy". Still they have a tsunami warning on the right-hand corner of the screen. So this surreal picture is here… Becks and a map of Japan with yellow tsunami warning lines.
Using Two of the Features of Google: Google Maps and Google News
Both Google Maps and Google News are found at the top of the Google home. They are blue links.
Google Maps is the map search feature of Google. Usually, the Google Maps information is fairly accurate, but sometimes it presents inaccurate information. Since users can obtain textual directions and a road map, it is best to have both the textual directions and the road map. That way, if there is an error or something is unclear on one map, the other source can be used. It doesn’t usually hurt to consult the satellite map as well.
Users can add a map to their own site with Google Maps. It’s called the Map Content Partner Program. If interested in the Map Content Partner Program, consult the Google Maps site; certain terms and conditions apply. There is also a help forum for Google Maps.
Google News is a search index for news. Whether Google News is an improvement over the Orwellian days of broadcast and cable TV is debatable, but it seems to be, at least while there are other search engines that offer news features. The sea of blogs on the web offer a variety of opinion. Many facts not available in the mainstream press can be found in blogs or websites that are off the beaten path.
Some of the news services that are represented on Google News are BBC, Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Fox News, CNN, and many newspapers such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Google News returns results from more obscure news sources as well, such as the Chippewa Herald, Politico, the AFP, Aljazeera.net, and dBTechno.
Google News has Top Stories, World, U.S. and Business News, as well as Science/Technology News, Entertainment News, Sports News, Health News, Spotlight News, and “Most Popular” News.
For the Orwellian inclined, YouTube News has video news.
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Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media During the 2003 Iraq War
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Global Media Go to War is the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the role of mass media during the 2003 Iraq War. Its 43 essays, which are written by prominent media scholars and professionals from around the world, are organized into six major sections. Numerous perspectives are presented, but all attest to the social control function that media perform for their nations.
Global Media Go to War: Role of News and Entertainment Media During the 2003 Iraq War
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Latino Public Broadcasting Wins Imagen's Norman Lear Award
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Called “the Golden Globes of the Latino community,” the Imagen Awards are one of the most prestigious awards of its kind in the entertainment industry. “Through the funding and supporting of Latino oriented programming for public television, …
Entertainment News question by Elizabeth: what are the major entertainment news or magazines out there?
I want to let people know about a petition I have set up related to a celebrity. What are the major entertainment news or magazines out there I can write to so I can get the word out? I need more signatures! I guess it doesn’t have to be entertainment but anything to get the word out and where people are more likely to know about it. I guess NBC, CBS would be the two places that aren’t all entertainment oriented but they’re good, I guess.
how do you contact any of those by email?
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billboard, spin, entertainment weekly, people, us weekly, jet, ebony, cosmopolitan, elle, allure, glamour, …
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An important book to discern truth,
Iraq 2003 was a long time acomin’ and will be a long time agoin’. Last night, before writing these lines, I watched BBC World. It showed one of its extended conference call interviews with media people in the US, the Arab world and Europe. Subject: the effects of Iraq 2003 on the media. Participants from the large media groups were worried about safety of their staff – some are still being killed. Those from Washington were worried about how they can extend embedding. The obvious response “embed on both sides,” say Fridays and Saturdays with the US forces, Monday to Thursday with their opponents, was never mentioned. Why? Because the issue of reporting from all sides has never really been tackled. Arab speakers in the program focused on the politics of what’s happening now in the region and its connections with the war, an understandable choice coming straight after the death of Arafat and the re-election of Bush.
GMGW, with its six main sections, 30 chapters, and successful attempt to scan the globe for contributions, seeks to tackle the core questions. Technologies are new, in war and in the media; the hazy border between objectivity and propaganda is as hard to define as ever; journalism as another way of conducting war is as alive as ever; and, above all, the difference between conflicts which can be presented as part of show biz’, and those which cannot, is always important. For the brutal truth is that, for all the razza mattaz, Iraq 03 is not such a big deal seen from the angle of death (is there another angle to see it from?). Anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 Iraqis, depending on whose figures you believe, the vast majority civilians have been killed or severely injured over an 18-month period. We are still counting, and will be for a long while to come. The devastatingly sad fact, however, is that this is a relatively small number compared with most wars , not to mention the “silent tragedies” of natural disasters, genocides, and long running conflicts. It is scarcely necessary to say that casualties on the US side, which have averaged about two per day since the conflict began, are trivial.
The contributors to this book, being involved journalists and others deeply interested in media matters, offer a wide range of clearly presented thoughts on all the eternal subjects. Their reflections are testimony to their personal commitment to serious examination of the problems, and to the unfortunate likelihood that profound cleavages of view will persist and quite possibly deepen. In what are usually called the democratic countries, this is taken as testimony of a thriving polity. Elsewhere, it is taken as a sign that hegemony hurts. A title of one of the chapters is telling. It reads “Al-Jazeera: A Broadcaster creating Ripples in a Stagnant Pool.” If the U.S. Presidency is to be believed, the whole point of Iraq 03 was to make the pool turbulent. The whole debate on the politics has been about whether this is the way to do it. If this book serves to help that debate encompass both the best of the Arab world’s journalists and those of elsewhere, it will have achieved a superb result. If it helps to go one step further, and persuade the US administration that belief (especially selective) is not always synonymous either with the truth, or with telling the truth, it will be a miracle.
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