To be perfectly honest, the painting didn't have all that much value to begin with. I know it's weird and somewhat controversial, but by screwing up a decently painted Jesus portrait, it caught our attention and now resides in the haven of the collective consciousness. If it wasn't messed up by Mrs. Bean here, we'd not give it a second glance, let alone know that this art existed in the first place.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/08/25/botched-fresco-draws-crowds-to-spanish-town/

I get my news from BBC/Reuters/Al Jazeera/Euronews. If you only watch one news outlet, you will ALWAYS be mis-/un-informed.

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Euronews is talking about the Atheist group who tried to take away the Religious aspects of the Oath.

Switched to Euronews looks like this one is a straight feed with little to no commentary.

Almost every News station I have is covering it except the Russia TV channels and Press TV. Surprisingly CCTV is covering it as well.

I have a channel listing on my Sat TV that goes in order of respectability I have towards that news organization.

1. Al Jazeera
2. Euronews
3. BBC World
4. CNN
5. Press TV
6. Russia Today

Al Jazeera is great because 90% of their stories is investigative journalism about issues you didn't know were happening.

*doublepromote

Watching a news broadcast on Euronews, something struck me, this isn't simply an operation to secure western influienced lands by Russian forces. It represents a political and strategic reclamation of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and the route of the future Trans-Caspian Oil pipeline.

Post collapse of the Soviet union the only oil routes for central Asian and Caspian states lead directly into Russia, giving the Russians a large degree of political and strategic influence over the energy flow into Europe.

There have been countless proposals to circumvent it, the BTC pipeline and the Trans-Caspian are routes that cross Georgia and through Turkey. Other routes use Afghanistan such as the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.

Seemingly this is a false flag operation to dominate the last really untapped reserves of oil and natural gas found in Central Asia.

I just wanted to raise this point with you Jonny, the war is covered in drastically different ways between American and European media. This was especially prevalent during the start of the war, 'Shock And Awe' on CNN was basically the Al Jazeera feed, they allowed the American people to see US warplanes decimate Baghdad but didn't follow it up with Al Jazeera's coverage of numerous civilians killed as part of 'collateral' damage.

The media as a whole rallied around the Bush administration, even publications such as the Washington Post, New York Times and many others justified the invasion of Iraq initially. Even with world protests, dissent from major European powers like France and Germany.

Embedded reporters were with the US forces offered a slanted view of the war, because the other side was never given a voice, and am not talking about insurgents or anything like that but the civilian population who ultimately bares the brunt of the casualities in the war. Criticism of any sort was avoided at all costs because somehow that would mean undermining the mission or the troops, not even thinking about how such a preception would be taken by the rest of the world.

Was it swelled patriotism, revenge reportage or an inablilty to critique a war seemingly everyone supported - I don't know but it was very clear for me to see just by switching between Fox, CNN, EuroNews, BBC and Al Jazeera.

The US Military believed that it lost the war in Vietnam not in Vietnam but in the way the war was presented to the American people back home. The same situation is being replayed now in Iraq, only this time the media was fully with the US military. Only now the news does not show combat, does not show US troop losses but mentions them in passing, does not show civilian costs of the war and most of all doesn't ever mention the vets coming back from the war injured and or disabled.

Ultimately my arguement is that I believe VS as I stated can be a venue for informed views with regards to current affairs in the world. The most important right now being the war on terror, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and many others that take place around the world.

We in less then 2 years have seen the rise of YouTube and citizen journalism as a whole, videos of the political repression in Burma flooded the internet almost as soon as the event occured, would that have happened before? Videosift is one of the few sites that actually has a politics section, a topic that is usually avoided like plague by other video hosts. I believe the userbase in the site as a whole is more then capable of policing itself, especially with long term users.

Likewise I do not believe we should avoid addressing important issues like the war. Everytime I think about this issue I recall this:

"I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good. "
- Robert McNamara

With regards to rubberneckers and drivebys, there is already a website far more catered to their interests called LiveLeak, I believe that VS as a community would provide the need framing and context not to create sensationalism for the posts that could arise, drive bys here don't last long at all. The reason people keep coming back is because the core userbase is exactly the opposite of the YouTube fanbase.

I do agree though that we shouldn't rush to finalize the issue.

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EuroNews
Pentagon Channel
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UNICEF
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here!
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Series
Specialite
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Trace TV
TVF
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Wolfe Films

The service works on the same system as Gametrailers.com uses, you pick a channel of which 3 categories are available at the moment; News, Entertainment and misc. Then you are presented with various different segments or a live stream. You make your viewing selection, these are then queued into a bar below, and plays each selection sequentially.

The only caveats I have found so far are; you'll have to install their TVEXT software on your system and Microsoft's DRM for Windows Media Player. However there no ads even, because all the channels are streamed free already, only the player and the streaming is much better.

Though I think this is a small price to something that provides the following channels:
Agence Free Press
Al Arabiya
Reuters
Al Jazeera - Not fully there but coming soon
Euronews - Full 24/7 streams in 8 European languages.
The Pentagon Channel
Reuters Business
White House Chronicles
UNICEF

Check my post if you are interested in getting news services such as Agence Free Press, Al Arabiya, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Euronews for free.

Happy to please, Farhad!

Looking at AlJazeera as well as EuroNews. Their non-subscriber stream over realplayer is crap, at least on my connection.

I can't wait for more news companies to go online and embrace the internet. Am looking at you EuroNews, RealPlayer doesn't cut it.
Thanks for sharing HorsSujet.

Like QM would say anything different...

Check my post if you are interested in getting news services such as Agence Free Press, Al Arabiya, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Euronews for free.