I’m in Prague with Brightbox for the Euruko Ruby Conference 2008 from tomorrow evening until Monday morning. I’ll post photos to the Brightbox Flickr photostream as we go along. If anyone wants to meet up for a drink, email me at john at johnleach dotty co dotty uk.
UPDATE: Photos here.
The public can see for themselves the ‘neutral’ media language used to describe Israeli actions: ‘incursion’, ‘retaliation’, ‘military operations’. By contrast, Israel endures ‘terrorist attacks’, ‘slaughter’, ‘a bloodbath’. Careful analysis by Greg Philo and Mike Berry, of the Glasgow University Media Group, found a persistent, ugly pattern:“In our samples of news content, words such as ‘mass murder’, ‘savage cold-blooded killing’ and ‘lynching’ were used by journalists to describe Israeli deaths but not those of Palestinians/Arabs. The word ‘terrorist’ was used to describe Palestinians, but when an Israeli group was reported as trying to bomb a Palestinian school, they were referred to as ‘extremists’ or ‘vigilantes’.” (Philo and Berry, ‘Bad News From Israel’, Pluto Press, London, 2004, p. 259)
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/08/080311_israeli_deaths_matter.php
The Leeds offshoot of the North West Ruby User Group is meeting again this Thursday, 6th March, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM. This time at Mr. Foley’s
Cask Ale House, on The Headrow (formerly Dr. Okells).
Expect unstructured discussion of Ruby, Ruby on Rails and other random stuff plus nice people, great beer and coffee and geeky tshirts.
The balcony back room of Mr Foley’s has been booked. Announce that you’re coming on the upcoming page.
Oh, and we now have a website: http://leedsrubything.org/
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.
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