Category: Media
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On Thursday I was on the southbound KCR (sorry, that’s the MTR East Rail Line) when the train came to a halt in the Beacon Hill Tunnel just north of Kowloon Tong station. Cue the usual announcement about a train being in the platform at the next station, but it soon became apparent that this…
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Outbrain links (on The Guardian, unfortunately) on 10 November …promoting an Education Post story from seven months earlier: Outbrain links (again on The Guardian) on 23 November …promoting an Education Post story from three months earlier: Even more absurdly, they have in the past promoted an old news story about schools and kindergartens being closed…
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Front page of today’s Bangkok Post. Left-hand sidebar – story about Pizza Hut selling pizza by the slice…in the US. WTF?
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Today’s SCMP on how the Hong Kong media reports suicides: Reckless media reports encourage suicides, say experts at HKU centre Experts from HKU centre say irresponsible reporting may trigger epidemic of people taking their lives and put pressure on families Jennifer Ngo | South China Morning Post | Sunday, 08 September, 2013 Irresponsible media reporting…
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Yes, the story chosen for the Hong Kong Standard’s “Dean Fung English” column today is about the doctor who was accused of indecent assault.
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Headline in the sub-Standard: Chan poised to pour over MPF fees
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I have read this several times, but I still don’t understand. Aren’t all leading Conservative politicians in the UK also Tories? Seeking the Right Way to Win: Why Conservatives on Both Sides of the Atlantic Are in Crisis By ANDREW GIMSON | Time Magazine | Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 Conservatives on both sides of the…
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The Sun really is a ridiculous newspaper. Their front page today has this nonsense about a ‘Brown Monday’: DEFEATED Gordon Brown yesterday sparked fears of a City meltdown after trying to hijack a Tory-Lib Dem deal for a unity government. His bid to rise from the dead by persuading the Lib Dems to prop him…
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Appropriately enough, it was while waiting to travel in cattle class that I read this article in Newsweek about flying in a first class suite on the new Airbus A380 (A Room of One’s Own). What really horrified me was this part: From the moment you arrive (generally in a dedicated hall decked out like…
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Time magazine has a story about Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World. Except that it seems not to be so boring: Santander’s only stumble has been steering some of its private-banking clients into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi machine through its Geneva-based Optimal hedge funds. It moved fast to make good, offering to repay 100%…
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