Category: Media
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Gotta love it when they get it so spectacularly wrong. This morning (Hong Kong time) it seemed like a done deal – Barack Obama’s convincing victory in the New Hampshire primary was very bad news for Hillary Clinton. Then over the next few hours the headlines changed, first pointing to a dead heat and then…
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Today is the day when digital terrestrial TV (DTT) comes to Hong Kong. But only in some parts of Hong Kong (apparently covering 50% of the population, but excluding most of the New Territories). And only if your building has the right equipment installed. And only if you have the right type of set-top box.…
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One of the headlines on the front page of today’s SCMP is Kevin Sinclair dies after long battle with cancer. John Diamond, another journalist who was killed by cancer, had something to say about the way that the disease is presented in this clichéd way by lazy journalists: “I despise the set of warlike metaphors…
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Help! I think I’m running out of time in the day to listen to all the podcasts I download. Football Weekly (from The Guardian) is now twice a week, and the BBC has started to offer many more shows, including the News Quiz, the Jonathan Ross show, and even The Archers. As luck would have…
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Interesting news: Media conglomerate Sing Tao News Corp (1105) announced yesterday its English-language newspaper, The Standard, will switch to free circulation next Monday – a move industry observers expect to change the landscape of the Hong Kong media market. “There is a worldwide trend towards free tabloid newspapers that deliver news in an easy-to-read, lively…
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The Guardian has a story about Jimmy Lai (The voice of Hong Kong – free registration required): His business products are easy to find on the streets – the Chinese-language Apple Daily newspaper, the weekly Next Magazine, and stablemates Easy Finder and Sudden Weekly. Jimmy Lai is that rare character in the wealthy Asian business…
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Yesterday I rushed out to buy my copy of the new re-designed SCMP, but somehow it has take me until now to find anything to say about. What’s the point of re-designing a newspaper if you aren’t going to change the contents? Actually, they haven’t really re-designed it – all they have done is introduce a new…
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First of all (via Hongkie Town), there’s HKGMB (Hong Kong’s Miserable Gweilo Bastard) who has been quite entertaining so far. Yesterday there was a flurry of activity on various blogs following the news of a bit of trouble at the SCMP. Take your pick from two blogs which are new to me: Mister Bijou (interesting comments here) and…
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I came across a rather unfortunate juxtaposition of advert and news story in last week’s Economist. They had an article about the problems with the new Airbus A380 opposite an advert from ‘Invest in France’. The advert asks the CEO of Fedex for a "French success story", and he offers this: The new Airbus 380…
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RTHK have an RSS feed called “Instant News”. Currently these are the 5 stories at the top of the feed: Serbia and Montengro reach knock-out stages of WBC Milan make offer for Ronaldo Keane set for Sunderland Boro stun Chelsea in Premiership Ajax out as Arsenal progress What’s the point of that? I expect RTHK to…
Ordinary Gweilo 