Archive for the 'media' Category

Political TV debates in Norway

Monday, September 10th, 2007

In a few days Norwegians will vote for local and county representatives, and of course the newspapers and TV channels are full of debates and analysis. Today I watched the equivalent of a town hall meeting with mostly representatives from the national parties in Northern Norway on our state television channel (link in Norwegian). The [...]

Multicultural television in Norway

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

This entire summer, NRK2, one of the state TV channels in Norway, have been broadcasting Bollywood movies every Friday night. To me, this was a real treat. Although I don’t enjoy every singly Bollywood movie (how could I, when they produce over 900 per year?), I seem to me more receptive to them than many [...]

The Year of the Yao

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Update: I removed the inline-link to the trailer, since it didn’t look nice in Windows browsers. Quicktime. I came across this documentary on Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA player that has made, and found it quite interesting. I knew that Yao Ming was an important role model to Chinese in the US and in China [...]

Chinese politicians on the internet: Fu Rong

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

EastSouthWestNorth has long been among my favorite blogs about China, providing real insights into the media and internet world by posting long translations of newspaper articles, forum postings and the like. That’s where I got the story of Fu Rong, the mayor of Lingao in Hainan, who logged on to one of the most popular [...]

Update: Harvard documentary online

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Update: I apologize for a) posting a broken link and b) taking so long to fix it. Thank you to those who pointed it out, and please try again, it’s worth it. I just found out that the excellent documentary on the sit-in at Harvard, that I mentioned in the last post, is available online! [...]

International TV channel?

Friday, December 16th, 2005

On the bus to soil science, trying to repeat obscure soil horizons and cation exchance capacity, I started thinking about TV. Ever notice how fun it is to watch TV when you’re in a different country? Granted, you might not understand everything going on, but it’s just so refreshing to see all new faces, and [...]

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