February 2009

A New Low for Romanian Journalism

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Media

 Sorry to go on, and on, and on, but a headline we saw today defied belief… ‘Five Dead at Amsterdam Airport; Adi Mutu Can’t Fly to Amsterdam’. It appears on the website of www.sport.ro, a sports broadcaster, Sport.ro (known as ‘No Sport.ro’ for the fact that it shows very little actual sport), owned by Pro [...]

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Bram Stocker’s Dracula

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Media

 We never did much rate Bram Stoker’s book Dracula, so we are keen to see if Bram Stocker’s is any better. Oh yes, in a glorious typo moment, according to a TV advert Romanian daily Adevarul is giving away a copy of Bram Stocker’s Dracula tomorrow. And from what we can tell, it looks like [...]

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Bucharest is Affordable Paradise

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Bucharest

 Another wonderful spoof news report from The Onion. Recognise the building in the background?

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Romanian TV News Cliches

by Craig Turp February 24, 2009 Media

 Ever noticed (those of you who watch and understand Romanian TV news that is) how many stock phrases there are? How many cliches? There are some subjects where you simply know exactly what kind of thing the presenter will say. Here are a just a few we’ve been collecting (with apologies for any spelling/grammatical errors. [...]

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Madonna in Bucharest. An offer we can refuse

by Craig Turp February 24, 2009 Bucharest

 Tickets to the much heralded Madonna concert in Bucharest, to be held in Parcul Izvor on August 26th, went on sale yesterday. Not general sale, of course. Oh no. Only for clients of Vodafone. (We know all this because we got SMS Spam from Vodafone telling us). So there’s one reason we do not want [...]

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Bucharest has many faults, but nobody should pretend that violent crime is one of them

by Craig Turp February 23, 2009 Bucharest

 What Danny Dyer would no doubt call a right proper naughty tear up went down at the Bucharest shopping centre Plaza Romania on Saturday evening, when a group of shaven monkeys with muscles, known comically in the Romanian press as the Preda Clan (try saying it without bursting out laughing) decided to get right proper [...]

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Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu

by Craig Turp February 21, 2009 Bucharest

 Don’t know who Alex Galmeanu is, but he has a blog, and a site, which deserve your urgent attention. If I ever meet him I will shake his hand and buy him a drink: these photos of Bucharest in 1964 are (probably quite literally) priceless. I know not where he got them from (and unless [...]

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