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The Era Of Satellite News Gathering

Posted by timothy on from the compaction dept.

swimgeek writes "The TV Technology for covering news as it happens is changing. This article specifically talks about the transition from ENG (Electronic News Gathering) to SNG (Satellite News Gathering). The American TV networks are close to spending $100 million for this transition, anticipating a possible war in Iraq."

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  1. just goes to prove.... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...that there are two things that drive techology forward: Porn and War. Before you laugh, think about this internet that you're on right now. It was a military network, set up so that we could maintain communications, even in the event of a nuclear attack. Then think about why it was expanded so much, because people needed more bandwith for streaming video, images, etc.

    Think of all of those fancy moon rockets, which were produced on top of all the reasearch German Military engineers did. Even the safety glass in your car was invented for gas masks long before it was in a car.

    When the next great leap in technology takes forward, it will be related either to (a)people killing each other or (b) people looking at each other naked.

  2. waste of money by Archfeld · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will read it on the net from a foreign news source just like I would anyways, anything else is so slanted and pre-digested as to be worthless for news anyways.

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  3. Re:President bush announces: no war in Iraq by Tailhook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    lot of innocent civilians ...have been, are and will be killed by Saddam whether we french around or not.

    A man tried to escape to Northern Iraq a few days ago. Bathe Party folks captured him. They tied him to a pole, cut out his tounge and let him bleed to death in public. Guess they were too busy to find an acid vat.

    Let's roll.

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  4. The Logic of War? by sydlexic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "All right, let me see if I understand the logic of
    this correctly. We are going to ignore the United
    Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that
    the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to
    wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war .
    The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be
    taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to
    guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is
    too important not to take up arms to defend. Am I
    getting this right?
    Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is
    to vitiate the democracy of the Security Council, then
    we are honor-bound to do that too, because democracy,
    as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a
    little thing like democracy as they define it. Also,
    in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at
    home, we cannot afford dissension among ourselves.
    We must speak with one voice against Saddam Hussein's
    failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
    sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make
    the point that might does not make right, as Saddam
    Hussein seems to think it does. And we are twisting
    the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
    oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition.
    We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his
    own people. And if our people, and people elsewhere in
    the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
    choice but to ignore them."-
    by PETER FREUNDLICH