Media

Romanian TV News Easter Bingo

by Craig Turp April 22, 2011 Bucharest

 You do not have to be a regular reader of ours to know that we do not have the highest opinion of the Romanian media. Reduced to covering only domestic issues, almost all Romanian media outlets follow the same formula when reporting news and events, almost as if they are doing it by numbers. While [...]

16 comments Read the full article →

We’ve been libeled

by Craig Turp April 21, 2011 Media

 Oh yes, we’ve been well and truly libeled. In print as well, not just on some crappy blog. So what to do? We’ve so far been involved in two libel trials in Romania. Once when a Chinese restaurant sued us because they didn’t like something we’d written about them, and again when we accused a [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

Crap newspapers, now in 3D

by Craig Turp September 13, 2010 Bucharest

 We are not huge fans of 3D films. We know they are all the rage, but we can’t help thinking that they are just a bit of a waste of time. By making a film in 3D you are basically admitting that the film is not good enough to carry its audience on its merits [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Greece, the craddle (sic) of democracy

by Craig Turp May 6, 2010 Media

 We would never, ever, even dream of writing and publishing anything in Romanian until it had been thoroughly proof read by a Romanian native speaker. It would be an offence against the Romanian language to do so. So why is it that so many Romanians think that they can write and publish English texts without [...]

14 comments Read the full article →

Great Books in English about Romania No. 2: Rates of Exchange, by Malcolm Bradbury

by Craig Turp April 27, 2010 Books

  Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury First, a classic communist joke: “Why is Slaka like America?” “Because in America you can criticise America, and in Slaka you can criticise America too.” OK. So it goes without saying that this novel (from which we pinched the joke) by one of Britain’s finest 20th century writers, [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

Romania’s anti-Gypsy hackers strike again

by Craig Turp April 20, 2010 Media

 According to Romanian tabloid Libertatea, the same hackers responsible for the attack last week on the Daily Telegraph’s website have struck again, this time at the French daily Le Monde. The attack is in response to a French comedian making a rather bad-taste joke about Romanians on national French TV. The hackers are, once again, [...]

25 comments Read the full article →

Copied from Wikipedia

by Craig Turp March 21, 2010 Media

 Apparently, an Amazon.com ‘user review’ of a guidebook we wrote a few years ago claims that parts of the book were ‘lifted from Wikipedia.’ Really? Knowing full well that they were not (we have the original words – and they were original, all god-knows-how-many thousands of them – on a hard drive somewhere), we wondered [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →