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Parsons Green: Police hunt bomber behind Tube attack

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Police are "chasing down suspects" in search of those behind Friday's rush hour Tube bombing in south-west London. Hundreds of officers are trawling through CCTV and carrying out forensic investigations following the District Line explosion, which injured 29. The UK News terror threat has been raised to critical - the highest level - meaning an attack may be imminent. Security Minister Ben Wallace told the news a "manhunt" was under way for the "bomber or bombers" responsible. The Islamic State group has said it was behind the bomb, which detonated at 08:20 BST at Parsons Green station. Latest updates: Incident at Parsons Green What do we know about the bomb? Witnesses describe what happened The station reopened in the early hours of Saturday. The Metropolitan Police's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said it was "very routine" for IS to claim the attack "whether or not they've had any previous engagement ...

How Digital Media Has Changed the Way We Receive Our News

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The news media has changed massively over the last quarter century. Newspapers are still being printed, but increasingly, people are turning to the internet for the latest UK News . Online news sites have a huge advantage over the printed news media. They can post articles and coverage of breaking news within minutes of it happening. With the advents of Twitter, Instagram and other leading social media platforms, news providers are able to be in the centre of the action, as it happens, reporting events live. This has significantly changed the type of news we regularly read, and it has changed how and when we read it. While many of us will still enjoy a leisurely morning read of the newspaper, these luxuries tend to be consigned to the realms of lazy Sunday mornings. They are no longer something we all do on a daily basis. We are much more likely to scroll through the news feed on our favourite news provider's website. While we are on the train, during a quick coffee at work, w...

What Is Pop Culture and Is It News?

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Increasingly, we are seeing our news providers giving us news that would not ever have been published in previous years. It is normal now, to see articles that were once the fodder for gossip columns and magazines. Over the last twenty years, popular culture has crept in to news media, and has become a daily part of what is now regarded as 'news'. First, let's define pop culture. It is the full spectrum of ideas, trends, attitudes and popular opinions of the masses, on ANY given subject. Popular culture presumes a consensus based upon an informal, unofficial group's opinion. Now, in the 21st Century, as we all use the internet on a daily basis, this mainstream consensus can be developed and influenced with just one Tweet. So, Popular Culture can be as profoundly influenced by the media as it can be by the populous. Today, celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and even bizarre news articles are an everyday occurrence. And this news is being created and shared b...

Credible News Sources

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Recently, Keith Olbermann, on his MSNBC news show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann , cited Fox News as the "worst persons in the world." He claimed that the Fox News Channel is blatant right-wing propaganda. He also noted that President Obama, in a recent TV interview (the same interview, incidentally, as the now-notorious fly-swatting incident, in which, according to news reports on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN and elsewhere, the President demonstrates his "remarkable fly-swatting skills") claimed that there was at least one news channel dedicated to undermining his administration at all costs. Olbermann suggests that the President was referring to Fox News . Back in the day when the Republicans controlled both houses as well as the Presidency, a period that might well go down in history as a modern-day Dark Ages or Reign of Terror , the Fox News channel was considered to be the bastion of credible news. So much so that all other news agencies were too afraid even to qu...

What Is Pop Culture and Is It News?

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Increasingly, we are seeing our news providers giving us news that would not ever have been published in previous years. It is normal now, to see articles that were once the fodder for gossip columns and magazines. Over the last twenty years, popular culture has crept in to news media, and has become a daily part of what is now regarded as 'news'. First, let's define pop culture. It is the full spectrum of ideas, trends, attitudes and popular opinions of the masses, on ANY given subject. Popular culture presumes a consensus based upon an informal, unofficial group's opinion. Now, in the 21st Century, as we all use the internet on a daily basis, this mainstream consensus can be developed and influenced with just one Tweet. So, Popular Culture can be as profoundly influenced by the media as it can be by the populous. Today, celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and even bizarre news articles are an everyday occurrence. And this news is being created and shared by o...

Lifestyle News Is Essential to Improve the Standard of Living

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Newspaper has turned into one of the most informative-source for delivering the news. In the news paper, you can find various types of news like current affairs, current political affairs, current happening in UK and also the political and economic condition around the world. Life is a precious gift from god. People are mostly concerned about improving their lives. Life is full of ups and downs but one must overcome the hassles and make their life progressive. Flowing with development in life has become lifestyle news in the world today. Development forecast has always been a conversational issue in business news. This is the place where great minded people meet to discover the new methods of development by studying the old track records. There are numerous technologies coming our way at lightning speed. Latest news provides the technological updates, such as the release of the new software, operating system etc. People have started following the new trend in their lifestyles. Toda...

Why News Releases Fail

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Many of you may know me, since I run Imediafax, the Internet to Media Fax Service. I send out over a million news releases a year for people via fax and email. You probably think that I've got news releases failing on me day in and day out. Actually, I don't. The news releases I write and send out for people do quite well. My clients are quite happy with me because they are successful with their outreach efforts. It's the draft news releases that people send to me that are my problem. Fixing the problems I see in the news releases people send me takes forever. It is also very painful. I've seen a lot of news release failure over the years, and I now know what the key problems look like and how to fix them. My plight as a publicist is that I spend a lot of time educating my clients trying to get them to understand the psychology of dealing with the media. The rubber meets the road in the news release because this single sheet of paper is the key nexus for a...