Welcome to My World
Hello. I’m William Crawley, and I hope you will join me on my new journey through the Blogosphere (I promise not to use that word again. Ok, maybe once more). If you don’t know what a blog is, there is information on the other links; but as far as I’m concerned, it’s a rolling conversation ranging over the subjects that interest me -- and, hopefully, you. It doesn’t work unless we both participate. So, feel free to post and discuss – I’ll be here almost every day.
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William-
Who would've thunk it? The 'blog', becoming a roots-driven form of New Media? Glad you're able to start blogging - look forward to checking in.
-John
Hey William, nice writing so far, much better then the last ´óÏó´«Ã½ NI weblog. :)
I just finished Michael Baigent's book
"The Jesus Papers". Can you e-mail him and/or ask him the following:
Those photographs he presented to the British Museum (chapter one). Surely as a photographer, he kept negatives of the documents that could have been sold by the possessors for millions. Later he was told "what photographs?" by the British Museum. He states
"I cannot say that I was surprised". My question: What happened to the negatives?
I recall well the coverage of the disgraceful murder of black teenager Damilola Taylor. From the day of his murder, through the period leading up to his funeral and the out pouring of grief, the world media were present, reporting the progress of events as part of their daily headlines.
The core issue that generated such interest was the racial motive behind the brutal killing.
How is it then that 5 years on, the religious motivated murder of a 15 year old school boy in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, can drop so quickly down the main UK headlines?
Today, only hours after his funeral, the story of Michael McIlveen falls behind the reporting of the separation of Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills, among other news items.
What happened to equity of reporting? What is it that differentiates the reporting of the religious motivated murder of a school boy in Northern Ireland from the racially motivated murder of a school boy in England?
Perhaps someone can tell me why young Michael McIlveen's life and death are less news worthy than that of young Damilola?