EU News Sources

In trawling through the Think About It blog, there is a interesting post on News Sources. I had heard of most of them before like EUobserver, International Herald Tribune Europe, Euractiv, BBC - Europe, Financial Times, European Voice and The Economist - Europe. Most of these I am subbed too or visit on occassion.

But the post also points in the direction of ones I didn't know existed! One of those is Euro¦Topics which presents a daily round up of news from around Europe. It translate them into English, French, Spanish and German. Its really interesting to see how stories are reported across Europe. EUFeeds is a project from the EJC (who are running the competition) and is a fascinating way to see headlines in each country. It covers national papers as well as local papers. It is really interesting! EUX.TV has interesting videos on the EU as of course does the Euronews website.

For those interesting in Business and what something to complement their reading of the Economist and the FT should check out EUBusiness. For politics heads like myself The Parliament is one to check out as is NewEurope. The European Media Monitor is also one to check out, this is funded by the European Commission and is a one stop shop for EU related news.

Do you have any that I (or others) may find useful?

Irresponsible Photos

Image by birdfarm via FlickrIn yesterdays (7/1/09) papers, the Irish Examiner (P15) and the Irish Daily Star (P5) printed, what is to me, a highly irresponsible photo. It was a photo of a dead Palestinian child buried to its neck in rubble, after an Israeli bomb hit a school.

Why was this photo chosen to printed with the story in each paper. This is not something I want to see. If that was featured in a news report, in the link in the newsreader would have warned watchers of images of a disturbing nature. You cannot do this in the news media.

Some would say the papers were right to print the pictures as it brings home the reality of war, but this is not what I want to be seeing on my tea break and lunch break, when I sit down to read the paper at work.

There is also the issue of Children seeing these images. These are not rated papers and therefore can be bought by anyone. I know also that many households leave the paper lying around and therefore can easily be picked up and seen by children. Is it right that parents may have to explain to children and comfort them after seeing images such as this in the paper.

Papers need to be careful with what they put in their papers.

Am I overacting on this? Or do you agree with me?