Last night all hell broke loose in “neighboring” Ukraine, where at least 100 thousand protestors braved a new law prohibiting public demonstrations and clashed with police near the parliament. Instead of writing a lengthy analysis of the news coverage (especially here in Romania), I decided to put in a few hours and assemble a video so you can see for yourself what happened. I have … Continue reading “Neighboring” Ukraine
A few weeks ago on a Saturday I went to the main downtown post office here in Cluj, which ironically bills itself as being the number one post office in town, and discovered that there was only a single, highly frustrated worker on duty. She had her hands full and was quite grumpy and had to be persuaded to get her keyring out and open … Continue reading The Hardest Working Bureaucrats in Romania
I knew it wouldn’t take long for me to catch Romanian journalists in a blatant act of thievery, their favorite way to produce content for their television news channels. Below is the correct way to credit a YouTube video on a news broadcast. Screenshot is from Kanal 5 in Ukraine: Not only is the source of the video correctly labeled as “YouTube” but there is … Continue reading Busted
Here in Romania it’s apparently all the rage to operate your own 24-hour news television channel so you too might be wondering how you can start one on your own. Luckily, it’s quite simple! 1) Get the necessary license If you want to broadcast a television signal, you need a license from your local government’s licensing authority. In the United States this is the FCC. … Continue reading How to start your own 24-hour TV news channel
Well we’ve all arrived in a new year and I’ve found myself moving in new directions. On a personal note, I’ve committed myself in earnest to learning the Russian language, which has come in handy as I work on perfecting my technique for monitoring, interpreting and analyzing global media, particularly the world’s television news channels. Assuming you can speak or at least understand all of … Continue reading The Second Dirty Secret of Romanian Television
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