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A lot of members must've brought their kids to work that day.

Euronews footage of the sphere and damage. Not much to look at, but I for one was curious to see it. "Pics or it didn't happen" and all that.

There are alternative sources if one looks. Some material may be objectionable, viewer discretion is advised.

Besides the U.S. commercial and cable broadcasters, there is news service on PBS stations with some streaming and podcasts available from http://www.pbs.org./ Many PBS and other public stations also carry the BBC which has much available on the web too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

A great many international newscasts are carried by the non-profit public satellite broadcaster MHz on their WorldView channel. (They have a number of other international channels also)

This guide is easier to browse than the one on their website:
http://proweb.myersinfosys.com/day.php?timezone=0&station=world&channel=MHz+Worldview&airdate=

They have free news and paid programs on-demand streamed through ROKU
mhznetworks.org/roku

Many of the news sources they carry have websites with some content available, here are some:

http://www.dw-world.de/ (Deutsche Welle from Germany)
http://www.euronews.net/
http://www.france24.com/en/
http://www.rt.com/ (Russia Today)
http://www.aljazeera.net/english
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AlJazeeraEnglish#g/u
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ (NHK Newsline)
http://www.youtube.com/taiwanmactv

Not sure where a country is? Here's a good but simple map.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/CIA_WorldFactBook-Political_world.svg

More info and a list of stations carrying WorldView:
http://www.mhznetworks.org/mhzworldview/

Sometimes a station has them on a secondary digital channel (Like KCET 28.4 Los Angeles) that isn't on cable. Ask your cable operator to add it if they're not carrying the feed.

Italy has decided to dump the full body scanners because they are slow and ineffective.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanner-project
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanners-20100924-15pgu.html
http://www.euronews.net/2010/09/23/italian-airport-security-axing-body-scanners/

Seems to me that ought be a clear signal that they are just security theater.

The military isn't holding back. It is losing.

That law exists in the UK but it's not as all-encompasing as it seems. You can be convicted of that if you lie to the police thus hindering an investigation, or deliberately withhold information that you know that could solve a case (ie. protecting a criminal). It doesn't force you to answer questions or allow the police to go on fishing trips.

The US has a similar concept called Obstruction of Justice.

For a recent case see http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=479890&lng=1

You're thinking of Poland where they want to give dead people the vote :-)

Well, yes and no. If I'm attacking your civilians while you try to attack only me, that is definitely asymmetric. I guess you're saying you'd rather not dignify the killing of civilians by calling it warfare. I can respect that, but it doesn't mean the term is in no way applicable. You'd be hard-pressed to convince me that two groups of people perpetrating violence against each other isn't warfare.

Although (tongue-in-cheek), if you really want to end the asymmetric warfare/terrorism in the Palestine-Israel conflict, it's not that hard. Just take all that military aid the US currently gives Israel, and give it to the Palestinian Authority instead. I think you'll find that they would stop suicide bombing small groups of civilians pretty quickly, and would start bombing Israeli government buildings. Kinda like how Israel bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry recently.

That's only a joke because the last thing we want to do is put more weapons into that situation. It's serious in the sense that the only reason the Palestinians use suicide bombs against civilians is that when faced with such incredible opposing military strength, there's not much else you can do except roll over and take it. That's why it's called "asymmetric warfare" -- it's caused by an incredible asymmetry in the strength of the opposing forces.

I've had friends who got into publishing and journalism after school... and they weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Wow, with friends like him, who needs enemies? *G

Anyway, taking up your point about the impossibility of reporting without commenting on the footage, the European TV channel EuroNews has a regular spot on its 24 hour news programme called "No Comment", where they do exactly that: they point the camera and turn off all commentary. Sound is still present. Here are some online examples.

I have found it one of the most interesting -- and frustrating -- things to watch in a news programme. Only the immediate context, e.g. a dusty street in Iraq, with women chanting, is clear, but the wider context -- which is what journalism provides -- is often impossible to guess at.

I think EuroNews knows exactly what it is doing: promoting journalism, not denying its effectivity. Their comment, that "images speak for themselves", and that you can "draw your own conclusion" from "unedited images" and "original sound" is disingenuous. No pictures are entirely unedited, and no sound is "original", either.

And, to answer the question about Time editors: well, no one is forcing you to accept Time's nomination. That's the whole point of a free press.

Cheers,

Nalfy

In case you don't know, the EU commission is discussing right now the building site of a future test fussion reactor called ITER. It'll cost over 10bn euros and it will be a proof of concept. The most likely location is somewhere in France and the construction will start in a few years. But don't hold your breath. We're at least 50 years away from the first commercial one.

Lots of info with drawings and hard-science here: http://www.iter.org/
EuroNews: http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detai l_europa&lng=1&option=9,europa

EuroNews is also running this story (they don't have it on the web page though)... I thought I would never hear the day when news readers use the expression "warez group"! =)