Monthly Archives: December 2013

A man has been arrested for making a Mandela joke: Welcome to Police State Britain!

Posted on December 12, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

ABOVE: Ex miner, (left) Tom Christopher and Neil Phillips, from Rugeley, who have been question by police for posting jokes on Facebook This is absolutely ridiculous!!!! Read on…. A joke which compared Nelson Mandela’s long time in passing to a … Continue reading →

The “Miniatur Wunderland” model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany

Posted on December 12, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

MINIATUR WUNDERLAND HAMBURG
The largest model railway in the world, and one of the most successful permanent exhibitions in Northern Germany Continue reading →

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NORDIC-DRIVEN E.U. IGNORES SOUTHERN SMALLER STATES PLIGHTS

Posted on December 11, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

The Nordic-driven EU leadership persists in ignoring the plights of its southern member states in the Mediterranean on issues related to migration flows from North Africa and Asia. Cannot avoid commenting on this, and it might be hard not … Continue reading →

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An Artist Counted Every Atomic Explosion On Earth And Shows Them All In A Matter Of Seconds

Posted on December 10, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto decided to visualize all the nuclear detonations in the history of time, and has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with … Continue reading →

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5 Minutes Of What The Media Actually Does To Women

Posted on December 10, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

“I don’t look like that, and I don’t desire to look like that.” — Kate Winslet ( originally Published on Aug 24, 2012) In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more … Continue reading →

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Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled

Posted on December 10, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

In a world leading country, which portrays itself as a beacon of democracy and freedom, where entrepreneurship and capitalism share the same bed, the common mortal would expect a free press and excercise of journalism.

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‘Identity Crisis’ in Photojournalism – AJR.org

Posted on December 9, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

In news organizations around the country, reporters are increasingly providing visuals with their copy. Freelance writers are rebranding themselves as multimedia journalists, and journalism schools, conscious of where the jobs likely will be for their graduates, are training all their students to write and capture audio, photos and video.

This advent of the new Super Journalist, the photographer who writes and the writer who takes photographs, is creating one of the biggest upheavals in modern journalism since online platforms gave everyone, including monthly magazines, a 24-hour news cycle.

In this new world, a world in which everyone is a photographer, what then happens to the photojournalists? Continue reading →

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