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Top story Mourinho, Ronaldo Deals - Pinoy Dream Academy's Persecution of Laarni Takes 5 of 10 Spots This is the first time any one subject dominated the list as this human interest story did. We wrote two series on the subject the first being a four part series and the second eight. This wasn't planned but given the abuse this young lady was receiving on the show warranted the coverage and our point of view. - Entertainment, Boxing and the NBA are the new entries to the NR Top 10 sections most visited list this month. The most significant story interest is in our Video Beat columns eight of which made our Top 10... - SEARCH ENGINES GUILTY OF INTERNET THEFT?

Thursday September 18 , 2008

NR TOP 10 September - MOURINHO, RONALDO, TOP LIST

Entertainment, the NBA and Boxing are the new entries to the NR Top 10 sections most visited list this month. The most significant story interest is in our Video Beat columns eight of which made our Top 10 and 10 of our Top 12..

The impetus of that interest is a human interest story about a young Philippine singer Laarni Losala who was a contestant on the Pinoy Dream Academy reality show. The show selected 16 contestants who were to be trained to be better entertainers. They lived and trained in a house on the ABS-CBN television Network studio lot in Manila.

At the time that we took our ratings sample we had written 15 stories on the subject. Five stories on the subject made the Top 10 and seven were rated in the Top 12. Given the interest in the subject we are extending this month's list to 12 to include all of the stories of our reader's preferences regarding the topic.

TOP SECTIONS VISITED

Our Phnom Penh section tops the sections most visited list followed by the Entertainment section which bolted to the second position making the list for the first time. Why the interest? Our research shows former Black Eye Peas vocalist Fergie spearheading a Global Youth Initiative for HIV Prevention may be the reason. She points out the multi-million dollar campaign is aimed at combating skyrocketing HIV Infection rate among 15-24-year-olds.

The famed singing group The Jacksons also made a difference as they were honored by the performing rights organization BMI. Also the rights to photos of Marilyn Monroe made an impact. Travel tips returned to the list after some time away. The most interesting travel tips story is the problems of Thailand's political unrest and the violence and deaths it incurred as well as trains and several airports being shut down by protesters which stranded tourists.

The NBA reentered the list after dropping off last month. It ranked number four in July. The business section finished 10th and our findings indicate that it was a solar energy story stating that a new solar energy system will soon make it possible to produce ... that provided the most momentum.

TOP STORIES

Our top story dealt with who makes these big multi million dollar football signing deals that have been dominating the sports pages since Ronaldo wanted to go AWOL from Manchester United. That story is in our Sports Notes July column. It refers to who Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho deal with. The answer is the CAA Sports and the story is titled International Soccer Agency Gestifute Create Global Partnership to Represent Top Talent, Including Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo and Head Coach José Mourinho. In addition to Ronaldo and Mourinho, clients include Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea/Portuguese National team), Anderson (Manchester United/Brazilian National Team), Nani (Manchester United/Portuguese National Team), Deco (Chelsea FC/Portuguese National Team), Ricardo Quaresma (FC Porto/ Portuguese National Team), 2002 World Cup-winning head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari (Chelsea FC). They helped orchestrate the landmark deal that brought David Beckham to the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy.

But the overall greatest reader interest is our take on the Pinoy Dream Academy's Persecution of Laarni was the big surprise. This is the first time any one subject dominated the list as this human interest story did. We wrote two series on the subject the first being a four part series and the second eight. This wasn't planned but given the abuse this young lady was receiving on the show warranted the coverage and our point of view.

We tell it like it is and not from a fan point of view but from a humanitarian perspective. When people are abused, humiliated and dealt with in a disrespectful way as she was we feel that it must be noted. She was a hard working girl who left home to strike it out on her own at the age of 15 and worked her way through college. She loved to sing with a hope to make a living at it and help her poor family financially.

The story that gained the most interest in the two series took the number five spot of the stories most read list. Since we forgot what the story was about we reviewed the series and discovered the hook and why we became so interested in writing this series in a story which placed eighth on the list. The following is a portion of the article which sums up why we continued to pursue the subject.

THE PERSECUTION OF LAARNI - Video Beat EXTRA August, 2008 Part 2

When Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 came on the air in mid June I wasn't familiar with any of the contestants and rightly so since it is supposed to be a show about discovering and training unknown talent. From the beginning the show had a strange atmosphere as there was a lot of bickering and backstabbing which emanated from a privileged group of 18-year-olds towards the over 18's. Their focus was primarily directed towards one girl Laarni Losala who wasn't chosen at the beginning of the program to be on a team. She was left over as no choice and assigned the team with the last pick.

As the mystery unraveled it was disclosed the anti Laarni group didn't care for her hygiene. She comes from a very poor and abusive background. For anyone familiar with third world countries the luxury of indoor toilet facilities, heat and running water are not a part of the underprivileged equation. They also lack the money to buy nice clothes. On the first show we were impressed by her vocal skills when she sang In Your Eyes. She was nervous but still delivered. The judges and mentors were not impressed and heaped heavy criticism on her performance, placed her in the bottom four and gave her the LOWEST GRADE of 5.17. We felt it was excessive and uncalled for.

That planted the seed of our interest in why were they persecuting this young lady who all she wants to do is sing, make a decent life for herself, make money at her craft and return to help her poor family financially.

Since we took the Top 10 survey this young lady rebounded and the television viewers had a different point of view than her fellow scholars and mentors. The silver lining in the Scarlet Letter type story is that she won the contest this past Sunday (September 15) which included a million peso prize and a house with a lot.

As a sidebar point of interest her emotions were shattered by her abusive family life which resulted in a broken home. Her mother was there for her. Her father returned on the scene after she was selected to be in the final six of the television series. He was at the final wearing a shirt that read…. Laarni's Dad.

The Top 10 most visited sections are:

1 . Phnom Penh

2. Entertainment

3. Travel Tips

4. SOCCER - International Football

5. NFL (National Football League)

6. Boxing

7. Cambodian Sports

8. NBA (National Basketball Association)

9. Sports Notes

10. Business

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The PREVIOUS Top 10 most visited sections were:

1 . NR TOP 10

2. Cambodian Sports

3. SOCCER - International Football

4. Phnom Penh

5. BIZ WHO IS - NEW

6. Sports Notes - REENTERED

7. Business - REENTERED

8. NFL (National Football League)

9. NBA MAX - French Language - NEW

10. Travel Tips - REENTERED

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National Radio is published in five languages, English, Thai, French, Russian and Khmer (Cambodian language). Any of our foreign language material and our Roman Wanderaugh columns are legally available ONLY on our National Radio site.

In researching the findings we have found that search engines Yahoo, Google and MSN are all guilty of misleading the public. They have linked our story information to other sites without our permission. Those sites include Thai Visa, Washington University in the USA and UNESCO.

We have tried to contact Yahoo regarding this matter but there was no response. For our story on Digital Divide Data titled Bridging The Digital Gap Yahoo linked our information to UNESCO and Washington University web sites as noted below.

Cambodia (PDF) 13 James Loving, "DDD - Bridging the Digital Gap of Have and Have. Notes," (by James Loving, National Radio Text Service, 8 April 8, ... www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ict/Metasurvey/CAMBODIA.PDF - 117k - View as html

The questions are:

1. Why would a company that is valued at billions of dollars employ dishonest practices?

2. Who is responsible for manipulating information that is misleading to the public?

3. Who is responsible at UNESCO in permitting the practice?

Yahoo used the same story to mislead the public to the Washington University (USA) web site as noted below:

Cambodia (PDF) 13 James Loving, "DDD - Bridging the Digital Gap of Have and Have. Notes," (by James Loving, National Radio Text Service, 8 April 8, ... www.com.washington.edu/ict4d/upload/2004052712430458_03760155.pdf - 117k - View as html WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Our Roman Wanderaugh columns have been linked to other web sites by all three search engines without our permission. The most flagrant violator is Thai Visa. We have contacted them in the past but they have ignored our request to take our stories off their site.

All three of the mentioned search engines have used our story information and linked it to Thai Visa without our permission. Thai Visa actually stole our story and posted it on their site. In the past they not only stole our Cambodia By Land & Sea story but also used our photo. Since that time the photo is not on our story on their site.

Google provides advertising for the site. The question is why would a company that is worth billions of dollars resort to supporting a web site that steals?

The information of our information page on the Google site also had the following endorsing going to the Thai Visa site. ©2007 Google - Google Home - Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google FRONT PAGE WITH THAI VISA

MSN did the same. They listed incorrect information and linked our work to Thai Visa as noted below:

Thaivisa.com The latest updated Thai visa immigration news; work permit and residence permit in ... Friday, 15 December 2006 Cambodia visa trip "TRAVELING AROUND" by Roman Wanderaugh o www.thaivisa.com/344.0.html o ¡¤ 7/14/2007 o ¡¤ Cached page

Cambodia visa trip "TRAVELING AROUND" by Roman Wanderaugh "AN INEXPENSIVE TRIP from BANGKOK to CAMBODIA by LAND & SEA" If you're an adventurous traveler the trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia from ... o www.thaivisa.com/border-run/page_2.html o ¡¤ Cached page o +Show more results from www.thaivisa.com

MSN also listed the headline TRAVELING AROUND on the Cambodia Land & Sea story. It raises the question why was it necessary to make two listings on the same story to link to the Thai Visa site?

Roman Wanderaugh and any other National Radio columns are only legally available on the Internet on National Radio. We DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION for any other web site to use our material including soliciting our photos to the public.

We negotiate directly with interested parties for use. We are published in print in five languages. We do not approve of Thai Visa using our material and all of the search engines misleading the public to other web sites using National Radio information.

Isn't a search engines job to lead the public to the information they seek? It is clearly stated on our National Radio web site:

© Copyright: National Radio. Any use of these materials, whole or in part, is prohibited unless authorized in writing by National Radio. Contact: nationalradio@yahoo.com All rights reserved.

The questions are:

1. Where is the integrity of these companies?

2. Why should people do business with web sites that employ illegal practices?

3. If search engine companies render misinformation regarding linking the public to web sites they aren't searching for while stealing the traffic from the site the public intends to reach does that reflect on the accuracy of the value of their business that could inflate the value of their stock?

4. Is there an ENRON in the house?

We believe that a search engine should take the public to the web sites they are trying to find and not misdirect them. FULL STORY NEXT MONTH.

 

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