( ( $blogs[0] == 'site' ) || ( $blogs[0] == 'children' ) || ( $blogs[0] == 'siblings' ) ) { $mt = MT::get_instance(); $ctx = $mt->context(); $blog = $ctx->stash('blog'); if (!empty($blog) && $blog->class == 'blog') { require_once('class.mt_blog.php'); $blog_class = new Blog(); $blogs = $blog_class->Find("blog_parent_id = " . $blog->parent_id); $allow = array(); foreach($blogs as $b) { if ($b->id == $this_blog || (isset($access_overrides[$b->id]) && ($access_overrides[$b->id] == MULTIBLOG_ACCESS_ALLOWED))) array_push($allow, $b->id); } } return count($allow) ? array('include_blogs', $allow) : null; } # include_blogs="1,2,3,4" elseif ($is_include && count($blogs)) { # Filter @blogs returning only those with allow override $allow = array(); foreach ($blogs as $b) if ($b == $this_blog || (isset($access_overrides[$b]) && ($access_overrides[$b] == MULTIBLOG_ACCESS_ALLOWED))) $allow[] = $b; return count($allow) ? array('include_blogs', $allow) : null; } # exclude_blogs="1,2,3,4" else { # Get allow override blogs and then omit # the specified excluded blogs. $allow = array(); foreach (array_keys($access_overrides) as $o) if (($o == $this_blog) || (isset($access_overrides[$o]) && ($access_overrides[$o] == MULTIBLOG_ACCESS_ALLOWED))) $allow[] = $o; if (!isset($access_overrides[$this_blog])) $allow[] = $this_blog; $seen = array(); foreach ($blogs as $b) $seen[$b] = 1; $blogs = array(); foreach ($allow as $a) if (!isset($seen[$a])) $blogs[] = $a; return count($blogs) ? array('include_blogs', $blogs) : null; } } } ?> The Revolution Won't Be Televised | Aaron Bailey

The Revolution Won't Be Televised

14 Jun 2009

I remember growing up watching live breaking news on broadcast TV by Tom Aspell from Baghdad as the first Gulf War began and Tom Brokaw live from the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was live and exciting and made for fascinating television.

This week, during the historic events in Iran and North Korea, the news networks and CNN seem like they're focusing more time on Jon and Kate than real news. Instead, the story is being shared by Twitter, YouTube and blogs.

Broadcast media organizations have gotten lazy on real news gathering. They must change or they'll suffer the same fate as newspapers.

Posted by Aaron Bailey on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM

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