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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, MAY 05, 1999 23:22:08 UTC XXXXX
WIRE: DRUDGE REPORT MAKES TOP TEN MEDIA EVENTS OF CENTURY
The AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE on Tuesday unveiled its list of the "top ten media
events of the century". And along with Ted Turner, Ed Murrow, and Guglielmo
Marconi -- there's Drudge?
The AFP was founded in 1835 as the world's first wire service. With some
1,150 reporters and photographers covering 165 countries, AFP is one of the
top three suppliers of international news, with the ASSOCIATED PRESS and
REUTERS.
TOP DATES IN MEDIA THIS CENTURY:
*December, 1901: Guglielmo Marconi sends the first radio waves across the
Atlantic, paving the way for worldwide broadcasting.
*November, 1920: First commercial broadcast program airs.
*1926: John Logie Baird invents television.
*1936: The BBC kicks off public television in Britain.
*November 18, 1951: Ed R. Murrow "See it Now" series launches nationwide
television programming in the United States.
*Late 1960's: A US defense department project to link computers lays the
foundation for the Internet.
*1980: Ted Turner launches CNN, world's first all-news network.
*August 1, 1981: The all-music channel MTV goes on the air.
*1992: The browser Mosaic brings the Internet to non-technical computer
users.
*January, 1998: Matt Drudge airs Monicagate on the internet.
About that January report, the AFP writes: "The media had turned full
circle, feeding public prurience in the way that penny-press forebears had
done at the start of the century."
The content of the media has changed little over the years, says the wire in
its century-ender on media.
"The route from the penny press to the World Wide Web began with the
invention of technologies that we now take for granted: the telephone, the
telegraph, the radio and the television. The emergence of mass media was
already apparent in the West by 1914, but in the interwar years, as the
world lurched from one political crisis to another, their growth was
explosive. This was the heyday of popular radio and the rotogravure
illustrated press.
"Radio transformed the life of the poor, especially housebound poor women,
banishing solitude as it brought the world into their home... The spread of
literacy meant that newspaper readership also expanded rapidly, so that by
1950, in the average developed country, between 300 and 350 papers were sold
for every thousand of the population...
"In 1990, British researcher Tim Berners-Lee -- who has been compared to the
inventor of the printing press -- created the World Wide Web, writing a
public-access program to help the general public navigate the labyrinth. Two
years later, with the release of Mosaic, the first commercial browser,
roaming the Internet became -- literally -- child's play... The rest is
history, and a godsend for the Matt Drudges of the world."
Leave it to the French!
http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm
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NEVER FORGET "Waco":
Between the days of February 28, 1993 and April 19th, 1993, approximately 80
men, women, and children living peacefully in their home near Waco, Texas,
were [gassed] killed by the combined efforts of the US Defense Department
and other government paramilitary units: the US Treasury Department's Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI). The incident also claimed the lives of four ATF agents
Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
http://www.monumental.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/
Elizabeth Taylor continued, blasting the NATO operation: "I think everyone
should tend to their own wars!"
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