Comments on: Heat maps of the world, colored by news-agencies' reporting on each country http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 00:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Belac http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149529 Belac Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149529 I'm not surprised that Israel gets more attention than India, nor, were I Indian, would I be jealous. News media attention to foreign countries is based on crises, not population, and the only way India could reasonably catch up would be in, say, another Pakistan crisis over Kashmir. Happy, and bored, be they who don't live in interesting times. I’m not surprised that Israel gets more attention than India, nor, were I Indian, would I be jealous. News media attention to foreign countries is based on crises, not population, and the only way India could reasonably catch up would be in, say, another Pakistan crisis over Kashmir.

Happy, and bored, be they who don’t live in interesting times.

]]> By: yish http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149535 yish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149535 I thought crisis was a temporary state. I thought crisis was a temporary state.

]]> By: Silva http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149548 Silva Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149548 What a disappearing rich, blonde little english girl can do for the coverage stats of your country... What a disappearing rich, blonde little english girl can do for the coverage stats of your country…

]]> By: Enochrewt http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149589 Enochrewt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149589 This makes me want to move to Iceland. This makes me want to move to Iceland.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-150106 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-150106 <i>I'm not surprised that Israel gets more attention than India</i> India has been hit by major terrorist bombings. One state is virtually run by Maoist guerrillas. Hindus and Muslims riot and burn down each other's mosques and temples. High ranking politicos go on trial for murder every couple of weeks. Prime Ministers get assassinated. Floods and famines kill millions. People get eaten by tigers, trampled by elephants and thrown off their own balconies by monkeys. India has far more crises than Israel. You just don't hear about them because they're underreported. I’m not surprised that Israel gets more attention than India

India has been hit by major terrorist bombings. One state is virtually run by Maoist guerrillas. Hindus and Muslims riot and burn down each other’s mosques and temples. High ranking politicos go on trial for murder every couple of weeks. Prime Ministers get assassinated. Floods and famines kill millions. People get eaten by tigers, trampled by elephants and thrown off their own balconies by monkeys. India has far more crises than Israel. You just don’t hear about them because they’re underreported.

]]> By: Carnadine http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149870 Carnadine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149870 Part of the reason Israel gets so much coverage is because it's one of the few places where reporters can live in a modern, practically European city, drive out to the war zone in an hour or two, report all day and be home in time for dinner. Part of the reason Israel gets so much coverage is because it’s one of the few places where reporters can live in a modern, practically European city, drive out to the war zone in an hour or two, report all day and be home in time for dinner.

]]> By: wd45 http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149903 wd45 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149903 there is a similar clip on YouTube about this from Public Radio International's CEO... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfiT3XqtcbE there is a similar clip on YouTube about this from Public Radio International’s CEO…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfiT3XqtcbE

]]> By: minamisan http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-150184 minamisan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-150184 @Pukebazooka: yeah, but once you subtract all the UK stories about Australia that involve someone being attacked by some kind of animal or a UFO sighting, or a UFO sighting by a kangaroo, etc, the result is virtually zero. @Pukebazooka:

yeah, but once you subtract all the UK stories about Australia that involve someone being attacked by some kind of animal or a UFO sighting, or a UFO sighting by a kangaroo, etc, the result is virtually zero.

]]> By: Michael R. Bernstein http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-152253 Michael R. Bernstein Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-152253 ObNitPick: These are cartograms, not heat maps. ObNitPick: These are cartograms, not heat maps.

]]> By: Avi Solomon http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149701 Avi Solomon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149701 What about coverage of 'systemic' crises like corruption or traffic accident deaths? What about coverage of ‘systemic’ crises like corruption or traffic accident deaths?

]]> By: Slowermo http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149469 Slowermo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149469 Skimming headlines too fast led me to believe at first this was the color weather forcasters used in the given country for a specific temperature. Which would be interesting too. Skimming headlines too fast led me to believe at first this was the color weather forcasters used in the given country for a specific temperature. Which would be interesting too.

]]> By: PukeBazooka http://boingboing.net/2008/03/25/heat-maps-of-the-wor.html#comment-149489 PukeBazooka Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149489 Interesting to see the amount of coverage that UK papers devote to Australia compared to the US ... they sure do like reporting on goings-on down under. Interesting to see the amount of coverage that UK papers devote to Australia compared to the US … they sure do like reporting on goings-on down under.

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