Today, for new information on the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, FoxNews host E.D. Hill interviewed FoxNews host Greta VanSusteren.
Why one reporter should interview another reporter from their own station... I couldn't say.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Why Media Goats?
"When the god was asked whether they should go to war, he answered that if they put their might into it, victory would be theirs, and that he would himself be with them. With this oracle events were supposed to tally. For the plague broke out as soon as the Peloponnesians invaded Attica, and never entering Peloponnese (not at least to an extent worth noticing), committed its worst ravages at Athens, and next to Athens, at the most populous of the other towns. Such was the history of the plague."Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
How was the god questioned? Via goat entrails!
And how was the plague spread? Via goats!
So what became a symbol for the significance of the seemingly insignificant? GOATS.
Enough said.
Primary Glut
Every story on the "cover" of the online Washington Post is covering the results of the Florida primary. I thought I would look around at other online news sources and pull out all the important headlines that the Post missed by gorging on primary commentary, when I realized that there are no other headlines. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Google, Yahoo, and CNN are all running the McCain win/Giuliani defeat.
Internationally? The BBC, Le Monde, Die Welt, El Pais, and PressTV Iran all succumb to election fever.
So where was McCain's face not gracing the cover? India. China. Egypt.
Tonight there were two worlds - one that is attuned to American domestic politics, and one that is not.
Oil, Tehran Times, and How News Spreads
Tehran Times 1/29, at approx. 00:30 EST "Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari Monday reiterated that there was no need to supply more oil as the market was supplied sufficiently and its conditions were stable. "
No Oil Shortage in World Market: Oil Minister
Press TV-Iran 1/29, at approx 03:00 EST "Iran's Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari has said that there is no reason for OPEC member states of pump more crude into the market"
No Reason for OPEC Output Rise
Reuters 1/29, at approx. 09:00 EST "Iran's Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari was quoted in an Iranian newspaper as saying that 'there was no need to supply more oil as the market was supplied sufficiently and its conditions were stable.'"
Oil Above $91 as Rate Cut Hopes Lift Market
Blogging Stocks 1/29, at approx 14:22 EST "Iran's Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said Tuesday that there's no reason for OPEC states to increase oil production, PressTV Iran reported."
Iran: No Need for OPEC to Increase Production
CNNMoney 1/29, at approx 23:19 EST "Prices were... getting support from expectations that OPEC will leave current production quotas unchanged when the 13-member oil cartel meets in Vienna on Friday for a crucial meeting about its output levels."
Oil Prices Above $92 in Morning Asian Trade
Okay, so what?
So this is how news travels. Tehran Times reports on statements by their Oil Minister. Another Iranian station picks up on the story, which in turn is posted to a stock blog after the end of trades Tuesday. The result is the story posted by CNNMoney - futures in oil are up by a dollar, buoyed in part by statements originally reported in the Tehran Times.
In less than 24 hours, statements made by one oil minister from one of the OPEC countries were impacting the Asian stock market four thousand miles away. That's the speed of information today.
At no point on this story's journey did any article mention the dubious journalism practiced by the Tehran Times. Likely the remarks of the Iranian Oil Minister were not fabricated, but some context might have been appropriate, especially considering what Iran stands to gain from rising oil prices.
Note: The Reuters story, including the quote from Gholam-Hossein Nozari, made it into the Washington Post. Nice to see my two papers tied together.
Note (part two): The pictured gentleman is Gholam-Hossein Nozari. The Farsi behind him reads, simply "oil".
Tehran Times Daily Headline: Islamic Revolution was one of history’s greatest events: Ahmadinejad
WTI/NYMEX: $92.37
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