Well, well, well. If it's not my favorite news station. In exploring the topic of "Mapping the News", I tried and tried not to go to the
Fox News website, but I eventually gave in. It is hard to explain in words how I feel about most everything the Fox network produces (except for the Simpson's, but even they are becoming suspect nowadays). I guess the best words I can think of are Fear Mongers. When I got to the site, I had a chuckle with the Politics menu options. Almost all of the options have something to do with terror and or war.
They even have a
Sept. 11 category that if you click on, you are brought to a page about the 5 year anniversary of the attacks. Now I'm no mathematician, but wasn't that a while ago? Like 6 months ago when all the networks aired shitty movies about 9/11 and blamed Clinton? Odd that this is news, at least in my opinion. If the news is that old, why have it on the main political site? I do have to point out that there are no dates on any article that I looked at, this seems odd coming from a news site.
In an interesting experiment, I typed in Fear Monger into the Fox News search engine and got an article on
Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?. Now I thought that we had figured this out, that even good old Mr. Dubya acknowledged global warming which is a miracle in and of itself. In this article there are a lot of opinions that question global warming and say that those of us that are believers, are just wasting money on research and calling those believers Fear Mongers. If we should fear anything it is this...
Also, did anybody see the show "Real Time with Bill Mahr"? Those that saw it may realize he makes some good points. But
Fox News is going to be all over him calling him a terrorist. Hopefully he has the balls to stay his ground and not apologize.
When exploring maps of the old and new, I remembered Pat showing this cover of the New Yorker in class. I found this article on StrangeMaps and thought it needed to be included. The article is about how New Yorkers view New York as the capital of the world.
Now even though I love New York, I have to add a map of Boston to balance my Ying Yang love for the 2 cities. This map is of the city of Boston from 1806 and shows one of the best places to eat in town, Faneuil Hall. This large building (aka Quincy Market) which houses all kinds of food, was one of my hangover cures for the weekends when visiting my best friend who attended Suffolk University. So after a few to many Guinness' in the Boston Common, we would eat supremely greasy food and chase pigeons. Ah, to be 19 again...
Now, new maps have become interactive allowing users to be able to "Fly To" and get directions to and from all over the world. The use of 3D design is also becoming much more efficient and used in programs like Google Earth. Soon paper maps may become a thing of the past, though there is nothing quite like being able to look at a hard copy of a map.
