Re: News coverage
- From: Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:50:29 GMT
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:19:58 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 28 Jul 2005, Sara Lorimer wrote
>> Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:35:09 GMT, Tony Cooper
>>> <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Take up the challenge, Matthew. Select the top five stories in
>>>> one of the major newspapers you read and list them.
>
>-snip-
>>> From today's "Pretoria News"
>>> 1. Small black spider tells Leigh's story. Police uncover holes
>>> in Moodley's confession
>>> 2. Striking workers trash city centre
>>> 3. Will boks have Wallabies for dinner?
>>> 4. SA Airwise strike resolved
>>
>> The top five stories in today's (Thursday's) Seattle Times (motto:
>> "Better than the Olympian):
>>
>> NASA grounds shuttles
>> Epic rain floods Bombay
>> Ressam judge decries U.S. tactics
>> Aswat held in Zambia
>> Bill to extend light produces plenty of heat
>>
>>
>Guardian (London), print edition:
>
>Page 1:
>
>1-3. (Three bomb stories)
>4. US in plan to bypass Kyoto protocol
>
>Page 2:
>
>1. 65 convicted in French child abuse trial
>2. Record rainfall brings chaos in India
>3. Sorry, but we'll still deport ou, Home Office tells family
>
>First two pages of the 4-page section of "International News":
>
>1. America hints at early start to Iraq withdrawal
>2. Tehran accues US of nuclear double standard
>3, 22 years' jail for airport bomb plot (Los Angeles)
>4, Grandparents to get their own day in Italy
>5. Colombia ready for talks with rebels
>6. Nasa asseses damage to Discovery shuttle
>7. Chicago mayor's opponents offer cash for fraud whistleblowers
I erred when I didn't specify "with international interest" and I'm
stuck with lists of stories about spiders and grandparents.
Cutting the above list to this type of story:
>1-3. (Three bomb stories)
Covered.
>4. US in plan to bypass Kyoto protocol
Not covered, but was this a report of an event or one of those review
and "where are we now" stories?
>1. 65 convicted in French child abuse trial
Not covered, but the conviction of 13 in the Mont Blanc tunnel deaths
was covered.
>2. Record rainfall brings chaos in India
Covered, and called a monsoon.
>1. America hints at early start to Iraq withdrawal
Spring pullouts likely were covered
>2. Tehran accues US of nuclear double standard
Not covered.
>6. Nasa asseses damage to Discovery shuttle
Dominated the paper, but the shuttle was launched from Florida. I saw
it take off from my driveway. Well, I saw the orange flames and the
trail of vapor.
The major international stories that didn't directly involve the US in
our (print) newspaper were:
Man held in Pearl's beheading
British police arrest Somali
Mad-cow case report (US, but of international interest)
Record rains in Bombay
Pontiff reaches out to Christians, China but offends Israel
Militants sought in Egypt's bombings
Algerian sentenced in LA airport bombing
German witnesses deny helping terrorism suspect
There were blurbs (small mentions) on
French courts convict in Mont Blanc tunnel fire case
Fire at oil platform in New Delhi
Afghanistan read for elections
Panel urges closer scrutiny of royal family estates
Police official in Chechen shot
Australia and US plan pact on greenhouse gases
Pakistan detains 500 in crackdown on militants
The difference in local time might put something in one day's paper
here and another day's paper in Europe.
In Orlando, stories about the shuttle probably squeezed out some other
stories of lesser (to us) interest.
It seems to me that Matthew, when he visits the US, may miss out on
current information about holidays for grandparents, but not on news
of the world. Granted, he may have only brief knowledge about
diddling the books on the royal estates, but he will at least know
that he'll have a subject of interest to catch up on when he returns
home.
--
Tony Cooper
Orlando FL
.
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