[UPDATED: This post was originally intended as a public service to folks in China who don’t have access to a television broadcast of the Obama Town Hall. But then I spent the last hour listening to the boneheads in charge of the audio for the broadcast inadvertently beam their voices, f-bombs – and overall lack…
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Interview: Monday Night Football’s Play-by-Play Man in China Airs it Out.
In American sports broadcasting, there’s no seat more coveted than one in the broadcast booth of Monday Night Football, the thirty-nine-year old, once-per-week franchise for which ESPN pays US$1.1 billion per season. Over the years, it’s been home to some of the very best in American sports broadcasting (Al Michaels and John Madden most recently),…
New lows in expat advertising: no ugly ladies in the sud de France.
Of the many journalistic beats that Shanghai Scrap really wishes it could cover more fully, none is more tantalizing than the sometimes – nay, often – ridiculous state of expat-oriented advertising in China. It’s a marvelous arena, both in its own right, but also for the insights that it offers into how poorly Chinese companies…
The faces of China’s next gen foreign correspondents.
On Friday, I had the pleasure and honor of speaking to a group of MA students in journalism at Fudan University’s School of Journalism in Shanghai. For those who don’t know it – Fudan’s journalism program is the oldest in China (1929, I believe), and also one of its best and most respected. In recent…
Ghosts of the Machines – OR – Just where do all of those Chinese PCs go to die, anyway?
On August 28, Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, ran a news item regarding ongoing studies of the health effects caused by environmentally unsound processing of e-waste (PCs, monitors, printers, etc) in south China [subscriber only]. in part, the opening paragraph reads: China has been accepting vast quantities of discarded televisions, computers,…
Experience Urumqi as a journalist would.
From a media standpoint, Urumqi riots seem to signal a shift in the manner in which reporters are allowed to cover “sensitive” events in China. Unlike, say, last year’s riots in Tibet, the relevant authorities in and out of Xinjiang very quickly made the decision to allow foreign and domestic media wide leverage in covering…
Tweeting Urumqi
Despite the fact that Twitter is blocked in China, and the internet is completely shutdown in Xinjiang, a handful of foreign correspondents have managed to tweet real-time updates on events outs there – either directly, or via colleagues back in their bureaus. No doubt, newspapers and magazines will soon have stories about what has and…
Buddhist protests and Muslim riots. [UPDATED]
Below, the ledes from two New York Times stories concerning ethnic uprisings in Western China, separated by 16 months. First, the lede to Jim Yardley’s “Protestors clash with police in Tibetan capitol,” published March 14, 2008 BEIJING — Violent protests erupted Friday in a busy market area of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, as Buddhist monks…
US Expo 2010 Pavilion: When confirmation isn’t confirmation [Updated]
[UPDATE 7/3: Sure enough, this morning, Xinhua issued a new story, denying that the US had confirmed: “US participation in Shanghai World Expo Remains Unconfirmed.“] Earlier today, Chinese media (Xinhua) announced that the US will participate in Expo 2010, running a brief story entitled: “U.S. to participate in 2010 Shanghai 2010 World Expo.” Shortly thereafter,…
Beijing this, Beijing that … Just who is this [Mister] Beijing, anyway?
I may be in the minority here, but in my experience there’s enough subtlety and disagreement in even the simplest of government policy decisions, in any country, to remove any incentive for blaming said policy decisions on a specific city. For example, whether or not you agree or disagree with Barack Obama’s fiscal stimulus program,…