Roland on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:23:21 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Paris Isn't Burning (but the Banlieues Did) |
Peter Lunenfeld a =E9crit : > French blogs have been featuring two images from US cable news > networks. The first is purported to be a CNN graphic of France > showing the cities where the riots have been taking place. The only > problem is that the cities are all in the wrong place (Paris where > Lille really is, Lille is on the the coast, Toulouse is on the > Swiss-Italian border, etc.), and the country identifier, FRANCE, is > deep within Germany. There's some debate as to whether it actually > ran, or is some sort of meta-commentary on American geographical > ignorance. In fact those errors come from Google. You can try with Google Earth and=20 search for french cities. Most of them are misplaced (you have to=20 actively search like "Marseille, France", if you simply zoom in the map=20 the locations are correct). They also have this problem with many German=20 cities (Berlin goes to Denmark for instance). And an update about those troubles : - last night in Grenoble, 2000 to 3000 person were pitted against the=20 police in the city centre. They were not poor, black or muslim... http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=3D339430 - last night also, ~100 car were burnt all over the country, and the=20 police is considering that that is "normal". 30.000 car have been burnt=20 since the beginning of 2005. The situation is much more complex than a simple case of immigration. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]