Chapomatic

The Prelinger Archives are storing an interesting television program for news junkies. The satellite channel Link TV, a sort of World Press Review television station, has a daily show called Mosaic that is a translated compilation of Middle East television news reports. LinkTV even has a list of the stations that uses words like “state controlled” and “terrorist”, so the channel isn’t completely whitewashing the news sources. (The station’s political bent is I think leftish; they broadcast Democracy Now! and had a couple of particular quotes.) The 24 December show had some interesting views on the same event from completely different angles, making it useful to see some of the biases.

One thing in common–I used to watch IRIN TV, and the women newscasters were completely covered. Nowadays in most countries I saw they seem to have decided that seriously hot looking newsreaders are a good thing. (Okay, Al Manar (Hamas TV) still has the “woman disguised as a bolt of cloth” thing going, but what do you expect from a terrorist TV network?)

Anyway. Prelinger has them archived here and apparently you can do some kind of cool RSS trick to it. One of these days I should mess with that syndication stuff.

Update: The “contribute” page has a Bill Moyers “Take America Back”(?) DVD and a Dave Matthews CD. Yeah, I think I called the politics right.