Well I’m a big enough man to admit it. Tonight I got punk’d. Tonight I got played by a real professional and “taken to school”. There’s no video at the moment (I’m sure it will be online soon enough) but tonight I got invited onto a local television talk show. Actually let me rewind and start at the beginning. Last year a group of local … Continue reading Punk’d
After writing all the depressing things that I have about the media lately, it’s time to mention something quite good. In the case of the Romanian media, that which is missing is fear. My little experiment is over but not one television news channel, not one newspaper, not one blog, not one major source of information and awareness here in Romania ever over indulges in … Continue reading No Fear
After a ludicrously long day of work, I passed through Piata Unirii here in downtown Unicorn City tonight and chanced upon an anti-Basescu march of about 50 middle aged men. I had to stop as they passed by me and a young woman standing next to me (wearing some kind of comical rabbit hat) whipped out her phone and began recording it “for YouTube!” as … Continue reading Here We Are Now, Entertain Us!
Well although I have no way of knowing the audience numbers for Romanian TV I have come across an organization which tracks sales for printed publications. In their report for 2011 (the most recent available) you can see that Click! easily comes in first place with over 166,000 daily readers. In comparison, the number one “hard news” paper (for much more of my take on … Continue reading Mutler Was Right
You know I got to tell you that my brief experiment with television is just about over. I thought I would be able to handle it, I really did. The last time I had a television in Romania was about five years ago when I lived in a little village. The only channels we could receive were the free ones from a satellite (one of … Continue reading Saturation Point
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