Mr Wang gets into fits whenever he reads the Straits Times. Consequently, more than half the entries in his blog fall into the category of "ST stupidity of the day". I get annoyed by our national newspaper
propaganda press, but not to that extent. The media of my choice has to be television. Whenever I turn on the set to any of our national stations, the random stupidity of the news and the lack of quality in its tv productions would make me scream within 5 minutes.
When Twiddledum and Twiddledee merged early this year, Channel U was spared the chops. Viewers should now be happy that the "revamp" of the station (the programming hardly changed) and its new branding will ensure more of the same dramas that MediaworksTV has been showing.
Of course, the
cosmetic revamp (in part to delete all traces of MediaworksTV's existence) has to be accompanied with a new ad campaign to be played incessantly on every channel: 带动亚洲流行!
Will someone please tell those yellow skin chauvinists that Asia is not HK, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan? Where oh where are the trendy Indian, Iranian, Indonesian, Egyptian, Turkish, Middle Eastern dramas on Channel U?
5 comments:
Unfortunately, you may also have to dispense the same advice to the some stations in HK, China, Taiwan etc who uses Asia to as a general set to describe their focus.
The correct term to use is Eastasia :)
in UK, it's the other way round: Asia refers to Pakistan, India, Middle East, etc. (just not yellow skin...)
i think a good term would be Oriental. but Dong Ya would be good too.
rench: L'Extreme Orient?
In US, Indians and Pakistanis used to be classified under "Others" or "Other Caucasians", and not as Asians either. But I put that down to the imbecility of their immigrations department than any coherent race strategy...
I am really amused whenever I see Pakistani/Indian/Others as a category to put myself into. Whatever would Musharraff say if he found out Indians were lumped together with pakistanis?
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