Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Happy New Year
A large quantity of tiome has flowed under the metaphorical bridge since the last lot of blogging on here - mainly because of my time in Australia and the Christmas vacation - and then the tsunami disaster which has rather focussed minds on other issues recently.
The BBC television news service was not up to its usual standard, I felt - it focussed on odd incidents and British lives lost, and initially failed to present a broader picture of the extent and locations of the event - it was involved, often moving television, but not news reporting as it should be. However, online (on the bbc site again) there was much more information - which is an interesting comment on the role of television and the internet in today's society which I suspect the BBC is working to, rather than a simple failure of journalistic abilities.
The people of the world appear to have shamed their governments into doing more to help as well, and again I think this is due to the power of the internet and other comms systems to make it easy for people to donate, and easy to make public statements showing the efforts individuals are putting in. With us having much greater access to the tools to create media output, our efforts can more easily be shown to the world.
For the next week or so I'm away again, unlikely to be able to blog either, but normal service will be resumed in the weeks that follow.....
A large quantity of tiome has flowed under the metaphorical bridge since the last lot of blogging on here - mainly because of my time in Australia and the Christmas vacation - and then the tsunami disaster which has rather focussed minds on other issues recently.
The BBC television news service was not up to its usual standard, I felt - it focussed on odd incidents and British lives lost, and initially failed to present a broader picture of the extent and locations of the event - it was involved, often moving television, but not news reporting as it should be. However, online (on the bbc site again) there was much more information - which is an interesting comment on the role of television and the internet in today's society which I suspect the BBC is working to, rather than a simple failure of journalistic abilities.
The people of the world appear to have shamed their governments into doing more to help as well, and again I think this is due to the power of the internet and other comms systems to make it easy for people to donate, and easy to make public statements showing the efforts individuals are putting in. With us having much greater access to the tools to create media output, our efforts can more easily be shown to the world.
For the next week or so I'm away again, unlikely to be able to blog either, but normal service will be resumed in the weeks that follow.....
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