tvshow:the west wing

It’s No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html

His mornings, he said, are spent as they were in Trump Tower. He rises before 6 a.m., watches television tuned to a cable channel first in the residence, and later in a small dining room in the West Wing, and looks through the morning newspapers: The New York Times, The New York Post and now The Washington Post.

But his meetings now begin at 9 a.m., earlier than they used to, which significantly curtails his television time. Still, Mr. Trump, who does not read books, is able to end his evenings with plenty of television.
[…]
Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, went back to New York on Sunday night with their 10-year-old son, Barron, and so Mr. Trump has the television — and his old, unsecured Android phone, to the protests of some of his aides — to keep him company.

… ce qui lui permet de continuer à tweeter sans retenue…

Every Map You’ve Ever Seen of Africa Is Right | Al Jazeera America

▻http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/6/every-map-youve-ever-seen-of-africa-is-right.html

http://america.aljazeera.com/content/dam/ajam/images/articles_2015/06/Africa_map_Mercator-projection_a.jpg

Would new maps that depict the continent’s size more accurately really change our attitudes about it?
June 21, 2015 2:00AM ET
by Nick Danforth

With all the deadly serious issues of social and economic injustice confronting Africa, it’s amazing how many people remain concerned with the continent’s size on our maps. If you’ve heard of the Mercator projection, the term for the ubiquitous rectangularly rendered maps found in almost every American classroom, you probably know about its flaws. Most egregiously, critics note, it distorts the world by making Africa look much smaller, relative to other continents, than it really is.

The anti-Mercator case continues to fascinate us, making regular appearances in outlets as diverse as The Economist, Upworthy, The Guardian and Business Insider. But it may be best remembered from a 2001 episode of “The West Wing,” in which an enthusiastic academic tells the White House that the Mercator map has “fostered European imperialist attitudes for centuries.” As he explains, “In our society we unconsciously associate size with importance and even power. When third world countries are misrepresented, they’re likely to be valued less.”

Is the Mercator projection to blame for bad public policy and geographical ignorance? It is true that the almost universally used Mercator world map (named for Gerardus Mercator, the 16th century cartographer who created it) relatively reduces the size of regions near the equator and expands the size of areas near the poles. Greenland, for instance, appears roughly the same size as Africa, even though Africa’s actual land mass is 14 times Greenland’s.

#cartographie #projections #représentation #visualisation #manipulation #cartographie #afrique

The West Wing - Holy Land Map - YouTube

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9IlR3-_-A

Siganlé par Béatrice Collignon

H. Con-172 - Season 3 - Episode 10

Charlie presents the President with a map of the Holy Land that he found at a flea market. The map does not depict Israel as it was drawn in 1709. The President wants to frame the map and hang it outside the Oval Office. Toby, C.J. and Leo convince him otherwise.

Copyright: Aaron Sorkin & NBC

Note: I had to disable the comments on this video due to some very violant anti-Israel comments. This video is a funny commentary on perceptions and is not about the rights or wrongs of an Israeli state.

SCENE 1.

BARTLET Weren’t you going to a flea market?

CHARLIE Yeah, I picked something up for you.

BARTLET You didn’t have to do that.

CHARLIE Yeah? It’s a map of the Holy Land that was drawn in 1709. It’s titled “Canaan, Palestine, or the Holy Land.”

BARTLET Nice sucking up.

CHARLIE Thank you, sir.

BARTLET Look at these topographical details. Seriously, I’m going to have this framed, this is great.

CHARLIE If you leave it here, I’ll send it out.

BARTLET No, I’m going to play with it some more.

LEO COMING IN Good morning.

BARTLET Look at this map. 1709. The Dead Sea, Jordan River, Mount Sinai.

LEO That’s beautiful.

SCENE 2.

BARTLET All right. Hey, you want to see something? Charlie gave this to me. It’s a map of the Holy Land, drawn in 1709. He got at a flea market. It’s hand-colored, copper engraved. I was going to put it in the outer office.

TOBY This outer office?

BARTLET Yeah.

TOBY No.

BARTLET Why?

TOBY Why?

BARTLET Yeah.

TOBY ’Cause some people are going to find it offensive.

BARTLET Why?

TOBY It doesn’t recognize Israel.

BARTLET It was drawn in 1709.

TOBY Yeah.

BARTLET There was no Israel. Israel wouldn’t happen for another 250 years.

TOBY Right.

BARTLET So, what’s the problem with the map?

SCENE 3.

BARTLET Wait. I want to show you this great map Charlie found.

C.J. Sir, I know about it. You can’t put it up in the West Wing.

BARTLETC.J. ?!

C.J. It doesn’t recognize Israel.

BARTLET There was no Israel in 1709.

C.J. That’s right.

BARTLET So, it’s not on the map.

C.J. Which is what some people are going to find offensive.

BARTLET That’s ridiculous.

C.J. You know what would be great?

BARTLET If I put it someplace else?

C.J. Yes.

BARTLET Leo has—in what used to be his house when he was married—a map of the United States. The first third of it is the 13 original colonies. The second third of it is the French territory of Louisiana. And the third third is Mexico. In this map of the United States, there is not a single state. That’s because when this map was made there was no United States.

CHARLIE knocks and enters.

BARTLET I am the President of the United States and I’m not offended by it.

C.J. Well, you’re bigger than ten men, sir. What do you say we put it out of the way?

BARTLET I’m having it enlarged and bolting it to the hood of my limo. They don’t want us to put up our map, Charlie. They’re philistines in the fight for freedom but that doesn’t bother us, does it?

CHARLIE Huh?

BARTLET Never mind.

C.J. It’s not like I’m agreeing with the people who are going to be offended. It’s just that you’re asking for a whole lot of pain, in exchange for which you get nothing but an old map.

BARTLET That’s the key. An old map. An old map. Spin that.

C.J. See, now you got me out there spinning things.

BARTLET Anything else?

Nuance, Depth and the Relative Islamophobia of Homeland « Christian Christensen – Stockholm University
▻http://chrchristensen.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/nuance-depth-and-the-relative-islamophobia-of-homeland

Several years ago the highly-acclaimed – and supposedly über-liberal – television series The West Wing aired an episode in which President Bartlet had to address a diplomatic crisis involving Turkey. The story was that a woman in Turkey, found guilty of having sex with her fiancée before marriage, had been sentenced to death by beheading under religious laws implemented by a newly-elected Turkish government. The crisis for Bartlet was that he supported Turkish efforts to join the EU, but, naturally, opposed the beheading of women by rabid Muslim lunatics. In the end, Bartlet, while condemning the execution, maintained his support for Turkish EU membership. The sheer idiocy of this episode prompted me to publish a commentary in which I pointed out that, in reality, not only is Sharia Law a non-factor in the Turkish legal system, but Turkey – unlike the United States that President Bartlet presides over – does not even have the death penalty.

In broad strokes, conservatives hated the show because of a perceived liberal bias; liberals loved the show because it had a Democratic president with backbone, intelligence and ethics. The West Wing undoubtedly provided a kind of political pacifier to US liberals suffering through the darkest days of the George W. Bush administration. What made The West Wing Turkish story so egregious was the fact that the show was hailed as some kind of benchmark for “thoughtful” scriptwriting on behalf of the political left (US left, that is). The injection of a blatantly ill-informed, Islamophobic storyline into what was spun as an intelligent program only highlighted the extent to which, once one cracks the veneer of enlightenment encasing shows like The West Wing, what lies beneath is often little better than cheap xenophobia.

(...)

No-one expected 24 to be culturally-aware in relation to Islam, so when Islamophobic content emerged in the show, it was hardly a surprise. But, when Islamophobic material crops up in Homeland, it is easier to deflect critique of this material by pointing out the relative depth and relative broad-mindedness of the show. That is the problem with relativity in this context: when 24 or Jerry Bruckheimer are your bias benchmarks, then all is takes is content that is a bit less ethnocentric and a bit less xenophobic to make yourself look enlightened.

#Homeland #séries #islamophobie

“There was no Israel in 1709” - Clip from TV’s The West Wing highlights absurdity of US Palestine denial
►http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jalal-abukhater/there-was-no-israel-1709-clip-tvs-west-wing-highlights-absurdity

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JnEASSEd0aQ

This 3 minute video is made up from different scenes taken from the popular TV show The West Wing. Season 3, Episode 10, which aired back in 2002 to be specific. Even though it’s a drama, but there is just too much truth in this short video.