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Romanian TV News Christmas Bingo

by Craig Turp December 20, 2011 Bucharest

 As eagerly awaited as Christmas itself (but not, of course, as eagerly awaited as the highlight of Christmas: The Economist’s Double Issue), it’s time once again to play Romanian TV News Christmas Bingo. You know the deal. As all Romanian media outlets follow the same formula when reporting news and events, you can usually guess [...]

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What’s wrong with ‘Ceausescu Tourism’?

by Craig Turp October 31, 2011 Media

 Why do we do it? Why do we watch questionable talk shows on questionable television channels (in this case Antena 3) knowing how loaded the content is, how subjective the guests are and – to all intents and purposes – knowing exactly what will be said. Last night the subject was a report that had [...]

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The Day Job: Mapping Europe

by Craig Turp August 28, 2011 Media

 Self-congratulatory post begins: It’s been all go these past few months at In Your Pocket offices across Europe, as researchers and editors have been feverishly plotting GPS coordinates for the more than 50,000 hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, cafes, embassies and such like that we have in our database. The result was made available to the [...]

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The Romanian Press

by Craig Turp August 8, 2011 Media

 Oxford University last week published reports on press freedom in a number of countries in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. Romania does not do very well. The reports are based on a number of in-depth interviews with key local media people, and while no report of this kind [...]

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Pasaport de Romania

by Craig Turp June 25, 2011 Media

 There is TV show currently running on state-run TVR 2 called Pasaport de Romania (Romanian passport). The premise is simple: find a foreigner somewhere, bring him to Romania and then throw him in at the deep end in a village in the countryside. Add in local costumes, food, alcohol and animals for maximum comic effect [...]

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Getting to the bottom of Romanian advertising

by Craig Turp May 22, 2011 Bucharest

 Remember when we toyed with the idea of placing a rather splendid Bombardier 346 on the front cover of Bucharest In Your Pocket to illustrate our Bucharest metro feature? If you do not, you can read all about it here. We were reminded of that particular quandary on Saturday, when we saw an ad for [...]

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Dub this

by Craig Turp May 6, 2011 Media

 Much talk this past week – post royal wedding – of things Britain does well. Not much, is the answer. We do pageantry and formal occasions well, certainly, we make a good sausage, fantastic crisps, and still – despite dumbing down – print great newspapers. Then again, the Chinese can put on an even better [...]

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