In recent months, he has held endorsement news conferences with them, ensuring pictures of himself surrounding by union workers in hard hats.

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Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.

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Every news outlet in the world was reporting the story and flashing pictures of his snow-white hair, skinny ties and sardonic smile.

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There's obviously nothing good about seeing your face and that of member of the opposite sex on the front of a tabloid newspaper all over New York, the Daily News, for example, with the word scandal in between the two pictures.

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In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme.

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Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.

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Following in the style of trailblazers such as Paper.li and MentorMob, which let you create your own newspapers and playlists from news stories, pictures and videos, IFTTT.com is the new kid on the block, in a growing list of sites that lets people curate their own Web space.

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Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) is pumping tens of millions into its own efforts, in conjunction with its Columbia Pictures subsidiary.

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At least those old news reels had traces of the audible static of old magnetic sound recording to remind you that the pictures in front of you were actually moving.

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