Presenters crossed the bottom line

Recently, two Radio presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross from the BBC evoked public's condemnation.

During their latest weekly radio two show, the pairs crossed the line and joked that the 78-year-old Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs had sex with his graddaughter Georgina Baillie.

Final Warning

The coporates executive board have decided to suspend Jonathan for 12 weeks and Brand has already quit when the incident happened last Wednesday.

The major issue here is that why these two men had such a freedom? As anything always has a limit.

Mark Thompson, the director-general from the coporate has warned Johnthan for his utterly unacceptable behavior, and both of them reached the agreement that "nothing like this must never happen again".

What general public's opinion?

Some people think that it's only possible when you imagine a hypothetical situation where involved celebrities.

Two men in their thirties and forties respectively and bait someone, like in his late seventies, with comments referring him to have sex with his granddaughter, would the police not get involved?

As recently the main actor for Dr Who is stepping down, some audience also had mocked Russell Brand - such a daring, mischievous, cocky guy - is he the likely choice to play the next Doctor Who?

Global Campus

A web-based digital media company need a marketing researcher, I was pleased to hear from them and got an interview this morning.

What is global campus?

The company is planning to launch a new website which serves the triangle customers -university, students, and coporates.

Their main aim is to attract potential students finding their ideal universities and suitable courses, through user-generated content and interative content. The site will explore different universities from four countries, including UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

In the meantime, universities from the globe also can search their potential students, and provide them related informations, such as how to encounter culture shock, where to get cheap discount, where to eat with a good price.

The company set their eyes on China market, and asked me how they should introduce their site to the vast Chinese market, what kind of methords they should use? How the Chinese mentality would be regarding choosing universities.

Corporates in the meantime, co-operating with the company, to provide internship opportunties and work placements.

I think the best bet is to encourage user-generated content, let the current students tell you OUR universites.

More specifically, let them upload their videos and photos and organise online chatrooms to explain to you what the real campus life.

But the problem is how to encourage them to upload their stuff.

The company need to win trust from browsers first.

Being short-listed from CNN International, London

Great news heard from CNN International, London - the world's most influential and authoritative news agency.

Hello

Thank you very much for your email and your query. I heard that Stephanie Busari from CNN Dotcom has send you an email a few weeks back. Did you get in touch with her?

Many thanks
Katja

CNN Internship

Hello

Thank you for your recent application for an internship with CNN.com. We have reviewed your application and are interested in meeting with you.

However we have no internship positions available until the New Year, (dates to be confirmed). How does this fit into your plans and availability?

If you are available next year, then it would be good for you to come in and be interviewed by the CNN.com team sometime in mid- November. Hopefully we can work out a mutually convenient date.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact on the number below, or email me.

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CNN International Application

The application I applied at the beginning is "the International Correspondent" programme and "the Spiritual of" programme.

However, both of them are highly intellectual news/current affairs programmes.

Most probably my capacity still needs to be improved to match the standard of the above two programmes, otherwise I should heard from them.

Anyway all the internships offered there are brilliant, as long as I'm practising multimedia/online journalism, it will definitely good for my career.

CNN International Digital Feature Online

Online feature is the area that I'm quite familiar with, the experience worked with BBC absolutely gives me the advantage to work for CNN.

I'm so glad that the CNN digital feature producer Stephanie discovered my strength, now I could believe that how important the experience it is.

There might be other more competitive applicants there, most probably, but they might don't have the experience of working as a Online feature producer as what I did for BBC London, they might don't have the experience of working in CMS, they might not clear of the whole online feature production.

Develop my strength and discover my potential.

War in Afghanistan - discussion from The World Tonight

I regularly listen The World Tonight from Radio 4, and Newshour from BBC World Service, both of them are excellent news programme and highly intellectual, I particularly like the presenter Robin Lustig, his way of presenting is very engaging.

The World Tonight has more news analysis element compared with Newshour, which is pretty good , because we can grab more information of what's going on in this world.

I heard the analysis about current war situation in Afghanistan from The World Tonight, it drew me a much clear picture of Afghanistan's severe turmoil - corruption, lack of decent education, thousands of civilians being killed...Now the Bush administration is trying to redefine its strategy for the coming months in Afghanistan.

The programmes combined both feature and documentary story making approach – location reporting/recording background sound fade in and fade out, archive audio clips, experts panel discussion, one local interview etc. All these treatments and approaches helps story telling.

However, the panel discussion is quite long (25 min around!), though it's separated by the local interview (with some attractive background sound) in between, I still found a bit hard to follow. Maybe could change some of the answer into the script, and let the presenter explain.

BBC Talking America Bus 08

BBC Talking America Bus is an amazing programme. I just love it.

It crabs my attention mainly because I can hear America's real voice, what are their opinions about the presidential election, how do they react with the financial crisis, it brings listeners the real picture of American situation.

I also enjoy the special approach of story telling – contrast and comparing; producer use a wide arrange of treatments (location recording, background music fade in or fade out etc).

For example, when talking about one of the American state suffered seriously during the economic downturn, the feature starts with a group of pupils playing veteran's song which was quite engaging, and then introduced some Americans were questioning their life value (always seeking for money). And I was thinking the story will end up here.

Surprisingly, the story turns to another side – the real situation is about money – then it talked about business and politics in this state, involved local person's conversation with BBC journalist.

I want to suggest the programme should interview more young Americans, such as college students. They're the future of United State, they're the people four years later working in different professions. The BBC should get them involved!!

Britain's missing citizens & Britain's new comers

First story - “Britain's Missing Citizens” - working title

Story background: British Empire was the most powerful empire for centuries in history. Along with her colonies' expansion, many British merchants travelled to those expanded territories. They started trading, brought their culture, language, lifestyle and civilization to the new lands. Some of them were staying there, got married and had children.

The TV/Radio documentary series aims to feature the growing up generation of these British merchants. About their life, their identity conflicts, the images of their beloved father (grandfather) or rather than the colonizer? What history left behind us?

Audience: different communities, working/intellectual classes within UK and worldwide

Second story - “Britain's New Comer” - working title

Story Background: Thousands young foreign professionals settled in Britain recent years in the flood of EU expansion and growing global village. These young talents served in the vast sectors of Britain, business, computing, media, law, design etc.

The TV/Radio documentary aims to feature their efforts of finding themselves a proper role within British society. As an outsider, how them fight bravely in their professional career? What's their life value? How they perceive the world?

Audience: different communities, working class within UK and worldwide

Final debate

Zimbabwe power sharing crisis

The former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki mediates the Zimbabwe power-sharing crisis.

However, according to Mr. Tsvangirai, there was no conclusion for the first day discussion, and will continue tomorrow at 1030.

President Robert Mugabe said that "continuing tomorrow means we have covered some area today".

The US state department spokesman expressed his concern about "Mugabe's overstepping the bounds of agreement."

The European Union also condemned Mugabe's "unilateral decision".

Cabinet's imbalanced power-sharing

Earlier this week, Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai condemned the imblance of cabinate power-sharing, 13 out of 15 seats were allocated to President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

The most important posts including defence, home, foreign affairs, and justice were allocated to Zanu-PF party, the Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai call for re-allocating the cabinate positions.

Can Mr. Mbeki solve the deal?

Mr Mbeki's spokesman said he was confident he would be able to rescue the deal, which he brokered just before he stepping down as president of South Africa.

And this is Mr Mbeki's first direct intervention since he resigned as South Africa's head of state.

At one moment in history, A black might win

US presidential election is around the corner now. Yesterday talking with a friend, he was firmly sure that outside of the America, Democrates candidate Mr. Obama must beat John McCain and possesses more votes (unfortunately, you and me can't vote!), Only Americans! Inside America, might be a different story (he thinks).

Today, talking with a pure American, his answer wows my attention. Yes, Mr. Obama will win! Let's get a close insight of recent race.

John McCain's financial crisis rescue plan

Both of the parties' presiditial candidates luanched their rescue plans. Republican dandidate John McCain unveiled his economic rescue proposal today which will mostly benefits the older voters.

He underlined that the market decline and value destruction were due to the congress failure and the timely rescue package coming out from the Administration.

John MaCain's chief economic policy adviser said that Mr. McCain's proposal was targeting people who were severely hurt from the financial crisis, such as works, seniors etc.

Huge loss compared with Obama

John McCain's proposal was unveiled a day after his rival, Senator Barack Obama's economic plan launch, the polls indicated that the continuous loss John McCain's votes compared with Barack Obama.

John MaCain has criticized Barack Obama for his proposal indeed will raise tax cut instead of reducing tax cut for American families.

Ideology revolution after Western financial crisis?

Various media outlets around the globe, such as newspapers, Internet, radios are expressing far-east citizens' concerns about the current financial crisis, which might cause the newly ideological transformation in our 21st century.

After world depression

During the inter-war period in 1930s, the financial depression and economic downturn severely led the occurence of extremist ideological movement, such Fascism, Nazism, and communism, all of these kinds of ideologies flourished into the different continents.

End of US age?

Today, cities such as Washington, London suffered the huge loss due to it's financial crisis, and does it mean the market economy truly can regulate itself? As the westerner always said for years of its advantage.

It's undoubtedly that many people would argue that the western economic policymakers should adjust its own policy in order to hinder such turmoil, and does the US financial crisis wil signal "the end of US age"?

It seems impossible to deny that China with its anthoritarian capitalism has succeeded in competing with the US's market capitalism.

Blaming of Bush administration

Bush administration and its military staff should be taking the main responsibility for current economic downturn and political setbacks on the world stage, according to an Syrian, countries, especially the major ones, which supported the Bush administration in its wars and policies also bear great responsibilty.