American and foreign newspapers: do they see the same thing?

This entry is not really related to my topic but it will permit me to go further into my opinion that different newspapers from different doesn't think the same way or that, thought they report the same information, the articles incite readers to react differently. For instance, I want to come back at the Nobel Peace Prize recently awarded to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Everybody in the world has been kind of shocked by this choice of the comitee to choose this young president. But I can affirm that people doesn't think the same way. The New York Times' article let us believe that the americans are really happy, surely they are, and that they think, rightfully, that he deserved that prize. But however, the French newspaper le Parisien published some comments, which are surely representative of their majority, saying that Barack Obama has been awarded for his promesses and not for his actions. It is their right to express themselves and to remind truely that Obama is doing war on two fronts ( Iraq and Afghanistan ) and is willing to send thousands more troops. I'm only in the capacity to show the french opinion being french myself but I am pretty sure that the spanish's point of view is different too. It would be interesting to see the point of view of the iraqis or afghans. I wouldn't be surprised that being in war they would express their disapprouval but I also think that some people would see a step ahead and a futur of peace with the United States of America, and the world (as promised by Barack Obama).

The Brain Miracle.

Michelle Mack, a 37 years-old woman was found born with only a half of a brain and live her life today normally but doctors and family are still shocked by the extent of the damage. A study of Mack's brain showed that 95% of the cortex is missing and still, she can speaks and walk....This phenomenon is explained by Doctor Jordan Grafman by simply thinking that the right side of the brain has taken over some faculties usually supported by the left side of the brain. It has rewired itself. Michelle has improved by now intellectual functions but still have abstract concepts and is easily los in an unfamiliar environment. Doctor says that she will always have problems but the diagnostic of Grafman and his treatment give Michelle's father, Wally, hope.
Michelle is conscient that she will need assistance for the rest of her life and wanted to talk about her case so that people would understand more persons like her, "normal but with special needs".

As long as you are getting older and growing up, that you're interesting yourself more and more in life, information is more accessible and indispensable, you have to be on the wave to understand the changements in the society and their consequences. Then a regular basis of reading become important and you're surprised to discover that you're enjoying knowing what's happening. You can then express yourself ( like I am doing right know ) and comment ideas that you've heard.



For example, I am more interested in the science / health topic and I read about it, differents article or the sames from different sources..



These sources generally are New York Times or CNN or some french paper like Le Monde, yes french. It's interesting to see how other countries evaluate the importance of some situation...







I read this article from The New York Times and it talked about a study (again) in hospitals which was supposed to prove that some hospitals aren't more " postoperatory deathly" than others. This idea about some hospitals being more dangerous than others are only about reputation on their postoperative complication. During this study from 2005 to 2007 and implicating more than 80,000 persons in about 150 hospitals, the death rates showed some difference in function of the hospitals but that the complication postoperative weren't more elevated in the high-death hospitals but in the low-death ones (24.6% against 26.9%).

This lead to think that the way that a team, in a hospital, reacts or responds to the complication is definitely more important than the the frequency of those.





Speaking of hospitals, children like this 3 years old boy received the first nasal spray swine-flu vaccine on last Tuesday, while the shots are supposed to begin in the following week...

The 50 states of the US already sent orders for the shots, but the officials also start to critic the vaccine by diffusing on radio and websites comments about their concerns. They qualify the vaccine as "untested" and say that the good one would come too late, but Dr Thomas R.Frieden hardly debunked them. "..flu is not a 'mild' illness-it can make you pretty sick, knock you out for a day or two or three. And in rare case, it kills." Conceding that the flu returned faster than a vaccine could be ready, he rejected the suggestions that it is too late.