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  News - Miyamoto: Zelda not necessarily darker // GC /// Eurogamer
Gaming whether the new, more mature Link was a reaction to public opinion or simply a personal choice, Miyamoto reportedly laughed and said "Maybe it's a little bit of both." Effectively, we're told, it's all down to the sort of story Nintendo wants to tell.
And of course not necessarily the same Link - Nintendo has previously stated that although they share much in common, each Zelda game is its own adventure about a unique hero, rather than simply a different tale about the same one.
This time he says the focus was on creating a believable Hyrule and the feeling of visiting unique places, but judging by his comments there was no concerted effort to create a darker world for Link, and the tone of the trailer probably wasn't representative of any shift in that respect.
www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=55615   (343 words)

  
  Not Necessarily the News - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990.
Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
NNTN was Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniel's first professional television writing gig.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Not_Necessarily_the_News   (176 words)

  
 Modern Architecture & Design news
Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is issuing an international summons to architects, students and designers from around the world to invite proposals for the construction of self-sufficient dwellings, in which the emphasis will be on exploring people’s capacity to construct their own homes, especially through the use of digital technologies.
The new built Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, designed by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, it is their most gorgeous work to date.
news.architecture.sk   (2026 words)

  
 Not Necessarily The News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
And the news clips were infused with their twisted humor--when Soviet premier Konstantin Chernenko died, they took footage of goose-stepping soldiers at his funeral, speeded it up, and added people singing "Ding!
The highlight of all of TV when the new cast met the old cast, and if I recall it wasn't pretty (fistfights?) But I do remember it was hilarious.
I do remember footage of Nancy Reagan speaking at a dinner or luncheon, and you could hear her thanking someone for the lovely music, but NNTN inserted "Wooly Bully" into the background so it appeared that that was the music.
www.jumptheshark.com /n/nntn.htm   (1685 words)

  
 NOT THE NEWS - NEWS THAT IS NOT PUBLICIZED WIDELY BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MAKE MONEY
We are always welcoming unpublicized news of any worth or no worth what so ever of any level of truthfulness at any time...including sarcasm or humor.
Many larger cities have had their water systems polluted by uncurable plague organisms and have not told thier citizens or anyone who has visited to such places as replacement of such ancient systems would be expensive and they might be liable to law.
An additional certificate was given for helping raise the viewership ratings of the long dead news who has nothing of anyworth to say or contribute to the world such as the above nonfactual mentioned content.
www.angelfire.com /fl/EeirensFaerieTales/NotTheNews.html   (1372 words)

  
 TomPaine.com - Still Not Necessarily The News
The last time the Center for Media and Democracy released their report that local TV news was filled with fake PR “reports,” it caused quite an uproar.
So readers in the markets of New York City's NY1 and WPIX-11, WDAF-4 in Kansas City, Mo., and WSYX-6  in Columbus, Ohio, have double reason to complain (And if you want to see if your local news is duping you, here’s the list of the 46 TV stations that used them).
But the interesting (or creepy) part of report is the Center’s website which has video footage of 33 video news releases, plus the television news segments that incorporated them.
tompaine.com /articles/2006/11/15/still_not_necessarily_the_news.php   (337 words)

  
 More News Is Not Necessarily Good News
Consider that a plurality of Fox News Channel's audience is now Republican, while a plurality of CNN's audience now consists of Democrats, according to Pew's latest biennial survey of news habits.
In his new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," James Surowiecki argues eloquently that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, often smarter than the smartest people in them." That's because a diversity of experience, opinion and knowledge can render the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Whether a more partisan news environment undermines or enhances the cognitive diversity of American culture - or diminishes the "gut rationality" of the public - remains to be seen.
people-press.org /commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=91   (712 words)

  
 NNTN - TV Guide Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The best bits are those that play with news film or tape, dubbing new - and much funnier - words into the mouths of world leaders, stopping action or repeating it, doctoring press-conference footage so that officials' replies to correspondents appear to be answers to silly questions put by cast members.
Consider a news clip of Yasser Arafat greeting a church dignitary with a big hug and a kiss on the lips.
Somehow, a hand appears with a magic marker to draw spectacles and a mustache on his face just as he is exclaiming, "I hate graffiti!" It may not be classy fun, but it's definitely fun.
www.lanesarasohn.com /tvwriter/tv_guide.html   (451 words)

  
 'India for secular Bangladesh, US not necessarily' - India News
'New Delhi calls for a secular democratic Bangladesh to emerge out of the forthcoming polls while Washington calls the term 'secular' a political buzzword,' the Bangladesh Observer said.
While Ahamed said he 'looks forward to working with whichever government the people of Bangladesh elect', Boucher said the US was interested in 'the election process, not in the outcome of elections', a media report said.
Reproduction of news articles or any other content in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of India eNews is prohibited.
www.indiaenews.com /bangladesh/20060806/17521.htm   (710 words)

  
 Bostonist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
She was rewarded with a shiny new token, a framed certificate commemorating the event, and a CharlieCard with $100 stored on it.
The T had leaked word that today would be the day the last token would be sold and tipped off press as to the location of the final sale so that press had the opportunity snap those oh so important photographs of Dan Grabauskas presenting her with the certificate.
The first day is a free open house welcoming anyone and everyone to come see the new facility, newly commissioned works, and the new additions to the permanent collection on display from 9 to 9.
bostonist.com /.../07/no_big_dig_news_is_not_necessarily_good_news.php   (5171 words)

  
 Letters: Not necessarily the news - Salon
And most of the 'news' Monday -Wednesday is rehashed stories from the weekend.
The last time I watched the news (I try to endure it once a week), there was a 1-minute announcement about a major local story, with absolutely no context or background, followed by a long segment on the "price wars" between Walmart and Target during the upcoming holiday season.
The music might be the same, so might the news set even the announcer at the start introducing the newscast might be the same guy you have heard at a station in your home town.
letters.salon.com /politics/war_room/2006/11/21/tvnews/view/?order=asc   (725 words)

  
 AlterNet: MediaCulture: Not Necessarily the News
Yesterday, The New York Times featured an extensive front-page investigation detailing the extent that pre-packaged news releases – produced by the federal government – are being used by television stations all across the country.
And the networks and stations that air these, and we're talking about thousands of these produced a year, are engaging simply in plagiarism and fraud, fraud perpetrated on their viewers, saying this is news when it's not news.
And The New York Times piece really, really puts the wood to the Bush administration for their massive spending, a quarter of a billion dollars in just the last four years on P.R. spin and propaganda.
www.alternet.org /mediaculture/21493   (1015 words)

  
 TomPaine.com - Still Not Necessarily The News
The last time the Center for Media and Democracy released their report that local TV news was filled with fake PR “reports,” it caused quite an uproar.
So readers in the markets of New York City's NY1 and WPIX-11, WDAF-4 in Kansas City, Mo., and WSYX-6  in Columbus, Ohio, have double reason to complain (And if you want to see if your local news is duping you, here’s the list of the 46 TV stations that used them).
But the interesting (or creepy) part of report is the Center’s website which has video footage of 33 video news releases, plus the television news segments that incorporated them.
www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/11/15/still_not_necessarily_the_news.php   (337 words)

  
 Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com | Film | Not Necessarily the News
When the big lummox lowers his voice to manlier-than-thou levels and flashes his smarmy grin, he becomes a master of playing men who think they're much bigger studs than they actually are.
Willard contributes some terrific one-sided phone conversations with his son's school, but the main load is carried by Ferrell and the actors playing his news crew.
The best bit comes when the crew's back-alley brawl with a crew from a rival station (led by an uncredited Vince Vaughn) escalates into a full-scale war among five tv news crews, all anchored by different movie stars, fighting with swords, grenades, whips, tridents, and other exotic weapons.
www.fwweekly.com /issues/2004-07-07/film.html   (808 words)

  
 Roger L. Simon: Not Necessarily the News
Sunday's lead story in the New York Times ("Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat") carries the newspaper's tradition of utilizing anonymous sources to the edge of self-parody.
Never mind - it appears to be the Times' practice to present veiled editorials on their front page despite a pledge to be more stringent in the separation of news and opinion (see Byron Calame in their own "Week in Review" section for Sunday).
One of the problems here - and I am, like the Times' Mazetti, at a distinct disadvantage not having read the intelligence report - is that by assuming that we are the ones who most fan the flames of Islamism we do not take the Islamists seriously.
www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2006/09/not_necessarily.php   (3097 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Reports': Not necessarily the news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
WASHINGTON — Although the Bush administration is again facing criticism for distributing "video news releases" that mimic independent TV news reports, one prominent Democrat says the media, not the president, should be taking the flak.
Video news releases have been tools of the public relations industry and the government for more than 30 years.
Last year, the Bush administration was widely accused of promoting "fake news" after two agencies distributed VNR packages that included stories ending without the "reporters" telling viewers that they were speaking on behalf of those agencies.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-03-20-vnr-notnews_x.htm?csp=34   (722 words)

  
 Free Press : Not necessarily the news
Luckily for Ehrlich, when the helicopter deal was exposed, he had already won the election by a 4 percent margin and was on his way to the governor’s office, where he would quickly get to work on the next insider deal with Sinclair.
Perhaps more important, by producing their own national news the Smiths could control what was on the air.
As Sinclair’s political agenda began to filter into its local news, the company was also filtering job candidates through a political litmus test that may have crossed the boundary of the law.
www.freepress.net /news/12478   (3469 words)

  
 Cliff Kincaid -- The Politics Behind Fox News
Fox News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch served as vice finance chairman for a Gore fund-raiser in 2000, and contributed $50,000 to the Gore campaign.
This is a legal firm that represents News Corp. Schlager once worked for Kerry as the Democratic Chief Counsel and Staff Director to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
USA Today reports that the recent attacks on Fox News Channel, most notably by Outfoxed, "have actually helped ratings, according to the network." Fox's total viewers were up 13 percent since July 8 over the same period last year.
www.newswithviews.com /Kincaid/cliff10.htm   (630 words)

  
 ECT News: System Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The goal is to encourage parents to use the video game ratings when buying games for their children.
Banks are rapidly taking up contactless technology, testing and launching credit and debit cards that need only be passed before a point-of-sale reader and don't necessarily yield a receipt for signature.
Nintendo's hot new Wii video game console is flying off the shelves, and it's also flying out of the hands of some enthusiastic players and straight into family TVs.
technewsworld.com /story/opensource/microsoft-linux-virtual-server-p...   (792 words)

  
 Progress Report, 8/2/04 - American Progress Action Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The administration claims the $445 billion deficit is positive news because, due to stronger than expected economic growth, the figure is below its deficit projections released in February.
A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found serious decreases in enrollment in Texas, New York, and Maryland.
At the same time President Bush is pushing $1 trillion in new tax cuts, budget woes are forcing states to remove children from low-income health care assistance.
www.americanprogressaction.org /site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=132914   (1600 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Piss Pour
A man freed himself from an avalanche by drinking beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
The story about a Slovak man who was buried inside his car by an avalanche, and supposedly freed himself by drinking beer and urinating on the snow to melt it, was carried by a number of western news services in
The story has so far proved difficult to verify because its attributions have been vague (e.g., "correspondents in Bratislava"), and it evidently originated in a part of the world (the Slovak Republic) where information sources are more difficult to track down (particularly because the language is unfamiliar to most westerners).
www.snopes.com /media/notnews/avalanche.asp   (274 words)

  
 Opinion: Why patriotism is not necessarily healthy, News, Germany, Expatica
However, in the same way that an individual can rid herself of feelings of insecurity without necessarily becoming arrogant, the fact that one should not feel guilt about one's country does not necessarily entail that one should have patriotic feelings instead.
In this sense, supranational organisations are imposing a new kind of monopoly on violence, preventing war between nation states in the same way that a national monopoly on violence prevents civil or inter-tribal war.
Perhaps these two developments, the relationship of the individual to a supranational organisation like the EU and the relationship of expats to their country of residence, point the way to a new kind of relationship to the nation state, one which does not hold the dangers of traditional patriotism.
www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=31332&RSS   (3187 words)

  
 Not Necessarily Interesting News
I’ve now got a new iPod with a 2 year warranty starting today and not from the day of purchase of the original iPod as I expected.
I had to drive to Fort Worth today to pick up some new wheels for my Defender so we decided to make a family day of it.
Saturday morning we woke up bright and early to start laying the new tile.
www.nnin.net /index.php?paged=2   (2767 words)

  
 [01-31-97] Gregory Rodriquez, High Profile Post for Cisneros Not Necessarily Good News for Latino-Americans
Latino groups and news organizations have cheered the appointment of Henry Cisneros to the post of president and chief operating officer of Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network.
Cisneros himself apparently sees his new public role as bridging the hyphen between Latino and American -- in a statement last week, he spoke of plans to position Univision towards the center of U.S. popular culture.
Whatever the symbolic implications of his new job may or may not be, that's about as an American a thing anybody could do.
www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/3.03/970131-cisneros.html   (765 words)

  
 stamford times - No news is not necessarily good news, or is it?
I like a quick science news podcast, a short NPR newscast and usually something from 60 minutes I may have missed from Sunday, a quick grammar lesson or a random political debate show.
If I have a light weekend and the time to read the weekend New York Times from cover to cover my staff usually knows as they will find various clipping on their chairs in the morning — I have gotten better at this, they have enough to do.
Oh, I almost forgot — there are the endless news wires, press releases and phone calls we receive all day in the newsroom allowing us to report the local news that is important to our readers.
www.thestamfordtimes.com /stamford_templates/stamford_story/287726329372966.php   (710 words)

  
 “The news” is not necessarily true. [Free Republic]
Although her parents immediately notified the authorities about their daughter's heart condition, the media ran shocking news reports of yet another incident of poisoned Halloween candy.
Of course, it is by using such "framing" devices selectively that a news reporter can condition our likely reaction for or against a particular claim.
But people can be trained to become better and more discriminating consumers of news if they acquire just a few tools of common sense and remember to activate them.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b2825fa39d6.htm   (2022 words)

  
 popshots dot org : ARCHIVE (Not Necessarily The News)
Recently, the Hartford Courant, the longest running daily periodical in the contiguous United States, decided to revamp their presentation of the news, hoping to attract and ensnare more readers with their snazzier layouts and pleasantly attractive typeface.
There was one letter in the Editorial section, comparing the "new" Courant to the odious USA Today and all this Internet detritus that corrupts our children's minds.
For one, the reduction of the important news of the day into a few short paragraphs is bound to omit vital information, as well as running the risk of trivializing important issues.
www.popshots.org /xarchive/000482.html   (670 words)

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