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Readers of this website will not, I hope, have noticed any seismic changes over the past couple of days in the way it looks and behaves.
Behind the scenes, though, we've been moving all the journalists who work on the main online newsdesk from their traditional home on the 7th floor of BBC TV Centre in west London down to the main newsroom on the 1st and 2nd floors.
So the online news teams have now taken up residence in the newly configured BBC Multimedia Newsroom, next to their TV and radio counterparts, and the newsgathering teams who deploy the BBC's news reporters.
The aim is to enable a better focus on telling stories well in video, audio, stills, graphics and text, and getting the right mix of each for any given story on any platform - whether TV, radio, web, mobiles, interactive TV or digital text.
We're not the only news organisation working out how to respond to the rapid changes taking place in technology and the ways audiences look for their news - as others hav co.uk Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Japan: Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake On June 14, an inland earthquake reaching M7.2 on the Richter scale struck the Tohoku region of Japan. In Iwate and Miyagi, the hardest hit prefectures, 10 have been confirmed dead, about a dozen are missing, and more than 200 people have been injured. globalvoicesonline.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 CNBC Hypes California Gay Marriage as an Economic Salvation Pushing a liberal social agenda is the last thing you'd expect to see on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." But the network's June 16 mid-morning show featured a segment praising the California Supreme Court for legalizing same-sex marriage because of a predicted economic benefit. "This time around, one study expects over 100,000 gay couples will tie the knot, providing a boost to California's ailing economy hit hard by the real estate foreclosure meltdown," CNBC Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman said. Goldman cited data from the pro-gay Williams Institute, a division of the University of California Los Angeles School of Law. According to its Web site, the Williams Institute "advances sexual orientation law and public policy through rigorous, independent research and scholarship, and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public." "Overall, they'll have about a $684-million boost to the economy over the next three ye newsbusters.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Obama: Our Oil 'Addiction' Funds 'Both Sides' of the War on Terror Barack Obama's press contingent has shrunk now that the primary campaign is over, but will we learn of everything he's saying on the stump? On Monday in Flint, Michigan, Obama repeatedly declared that we're funding terrorists when we buy foreign oil. In Tuesday's Washington Post, Obama's Flint speech drew one sentence at the very end of a story on page A-7. Doesn't this passage stand out? (Courtesy of reporter Lynn Sweet's blog):
Oil money pays for the bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut, and the bombast of dictators from Caracas to Tehran. Our nation will not be secure unless we take that leverage away, and our planet will not be safe unless we move decisively toward a clean energy future.
This is an odd passage for several reasons. First and foremost, far from taking "leverage" away from dictators in Caracas and Tehran, candidate Obama has explicitly promised to meet them without any troublesome diplomatic preconditions.
Second, Obama's declaration that our oil purcha newsbusters.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 The main discussion this week in Kazakhstani blogosphere was caused by the suggestion that was voiced by a number of MPs to rename the capital city Astana to Nursultan, in the honor of the long-ruling president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who retains power for more than 18 years already. It is worth noting that he was the [...] globalvoicesonline.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Defending Christianity: An Intro Apologetics: the branch of theology concerned with the defense or proof of Christianity; from the Greek word "apologia," which means a "verbal defense."
Christianity has faced an onslaught of criticism and slander since its inception some 2,000 years ago. Despite centuries of persecution, upheaval, and corruption, historic Christianity survives. No plans of man can thwart the [...] feedburner.com Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Topics in this episode: CNN markets itself as the neutral news channel, The Obama campaign's new anti-rumor web site, 800 rats in an Oregon house, and the band U2 reissues some music.Like the show? Get involved then! If you're a Myspace user, visit our MySpace page and add NewsBusted as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel and do battle with hate-filled lefties who like to give bad ratings to anything that isn't politically correct. Support conservative comedy!Want to try your hand at comedy? Send your one-liners to rightstuffcomedy@yahoo.com. If we use them, we'll pay you $50. newsbusters.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Takes Bombing for Williams to Note 'Letup in Violence of Late in Iraq' It took a bombing which killed 51 Iraqis for NBC anchor Brian Williams to acknowledge "there's been a letup in the violence of late in Iraq." Unlike his ABC and CBS colleagues, two weeks and a day earlier Williams failed to report the death toll for Americans in Iraq in May was the lowest for any month since the war began. On Tuesday night, however, he announced:
Last night here we reported there were more Americans killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq in the month of May. It's generally believed there's been a letup in the violence of late in Iraq. That is until today.
From Baghdad, Jim Maceda reported on the deadly bombing in a shopping area, but then he contrasted the incident with improving Iraqi expectations:
Not only did the blast break the relative calm here, but it shattered a growing sense of security as well. After three to four months of relative low violence, people were starting to come out into streets, returning to schools, stores and banks were opening.
On ABC's World Ne newsbusters.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Bozell Column: Gore Endorses Obama, So What? The day after Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama in Detroit, MSNBC kept repeating the allegedly big news with the on-air question "Will Gore Help or Hurt Obama?" Left out of that question: Who cares? Does Gore's endorsement matter at all?
Pundits usually declare in today's media-saturated world that endorsements from major politicians or movie stars just don't have much impact. A Who's Who of the Beautiful People in Hollywood endorsed and actively campaigned for John Kerry - and had no impact.
With Al Gore it's the same thing. He doesn't bring a single vote Obama doesn't already have. He could have participated in the process but he waited until the primary challenge from Hillary was over. Now he supports Obama. Where in the world is the news there?
But this is Obama. Anything related to Obama which could be construed as helpful becomes news.
Look no further than Obama being endorsed by Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy in January. ABC's David Wright oozed "The audacity of newsbusters.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on detainee interrogation. Testifying before the committee, former Navy general counsel Alberto Mora, who battled within the Pentagon to shut down the use of torture, blasted the Bush administration’s abusive detention practices as leading to the recruitment of new radicals and the deaths of more American [...] thinkprogress.org Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1 2 3 4 5
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