I generally prefer to write about events happening around me, because the story is mine and no one can lay claim on it. Sure, someone else can have a similar experience in the same place and write a similar story, but they aren’t writing about your experience, they’re writing about their experience and telling you about it. That’s called journalism.
I’m no journalist. Maybe something like a personal journalist, but I just can’t see someone saying journalist when they come to describe me. Whatever. The fact is, when real journalists are writing their articles or creating their television shows, I would hope they know what they’re talking about.
It would help if they had correct information. That’s the first step.
The second step is making a compelling piece that hooks you throughout, and trying not to blow it at the end.
Which is exactly what CNN did today. Way to go guys.
Pestiside, one of the best (and sarcastic) blogs about current events in the Hungarian nation, alerted readers as to the strange events happening on the CNN Video page. One of the videos, titled ‘Serb ultranationalists rally,’ focuses on the disintegrating situation in Belgrade, home to war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the fellow who finally was apprehended after 13 years in hiding. His followers, who seem to remember who he is after all this time (and neglect his genocidal nature), came out en masse to demonstrate against his imminent extradition to The Hague.
Police in riot gear with shields and batons beat back the demonstrators, running around dispersing crowds and bowling people over. The demonstrators respond by throwing rocks and whatever they can carry. But they don’t look that old. Are you sure you were around when this guy was in power? Or is this just your right wing parents telling you what to do?
This relative mayhem goes on for a minute and a half, and by the end I’m thinking, Ok well that was a riot, when’s the next one going to happen around here? And then I stop on the last sequence in the video. People are running around and hiding from the falling tear gas grenades, and a fire is raging in the middle of the street. Someone looks to be running for cover down the stairs of a metro stop. It would all be fine and dandy to end it on this image of Serbian outrage if it weren’t for one small problem.
That wasn’t Serbia. It was Hungary. The yellow metro stop sign enshrouded in tear gas (on the left) is none other than the symbol of the Millennium Underground, the oldest metro line in continental Europe.
Wow. You just fucked up that one.
I find it hard to believe that the leading outlet in Western journalism somehow messed up footage from the Serbian riots of 24 hours ago, with the Hungarian riots of 2 years prior. Really. What are you guys thinking? Sure, both riots were led by right wing nationalists, and both were set in a land far far away from a New York office. But being ignorant about two sovereign peoples is just retarded.
Someone should fire their Continuity Specialist.
UPDATE 1:
The video has been taken down from their site. They must have realized their stupid mistake (or angry ultranationalist Magyars called their New York offices threatening to riot on the streets of Budapest until CNN figures out who they really are).
I’m no journalist. Maybe something like a personal journalist, but I just can’t see someone saying journalist when they come to describe me. Whatever. The fact is, when real journalists are writing their articles or creating their television shows, I would hope they know what they’re talking about.
It would help if they had correct information. That’s the first step.
The second step is making a compelling piece that hooks you throughout, and trying not to blow it at the end.
Which is exactly what CNN did today. Way to go guys.
Pestiside, one of the best (and sarcastic) blogs about current events in the Hungarian nation, alerted readers as to the strange events happening on the CNN Video page. One of the videos, titled ‘Serb ultranationalists rally,’ focuses on the disintegrating situation in Belgrade, home to war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the fellow who finally was apprehended after 13 years in hiding. His followers, who seem to remember who he is after all this time (and neglect his genocidal nature), came out en masse to demonstrate against his imminent extradition to The Hague.
Police in riot gear with shields and batons beat back the demonstrators, running around dispersing crowds and bowling people over. The demonstrators respond by throwing rocks and whatever they can carry. But they don’t look that old. Are you sure you were around when this guy was in power? Or is this just your right wing parents telling you what to do?
This relative mayhem goes on for a minute and a half, and by the end I’m thinking, Ok well that was a riot, when’s the next one going to happen around here? And then I stop on the last sequence in the video. People are running around and hiding from the falling tear gas grenades, and a fire is raging in the middle of the street. Someone looks to be running for cover down the stairs of a metro stop. It would all be fine and dandy to end it on this image of Serbian outrage if it weren’t for one small problem.
That wasn’t Serbia. It was Hungary. The yellow metro stop sign enshrouded in tear gas (on the left) is none other than the symbol of the Millennium Underground, the oldest metro line in continental Europe.
Wow. You just fucked up that one.
I find it hard to believe that the leading outlet in Western journalism somehow messed up footage from the Serbian riots of 24 hours ago, with the Hungarian riots of 2 years prior. Really. What are you guys thinking? Sure, both riots were led by right wing nationalists, and both were set in a land far far away from a New York office. But being ignorant about two sovereign peoples is just retarded.
Someone should fire their Continuity Specialist.
UPDATE 1:
The video has been taken down from their site. They must have realized their stupid mistake (or angry ultranationalist Magyars called their New York offices threatening to riot on the streets of Budapest until CNN figures out who they really are).
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