Global View from the BBC for March 26-28
Media coverage of Colorado shooting. Russian media unimpressed by Biden press conference. Taliban media discuss apparently postponed US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Mexican media cover child migrants at the US border.
Global View from the BBC for 12-14 March 2021, with some international reaction to major US stories.
The start of the trial of Derek Chauvin gets coverage around the world. We hear how European press have discussed the significance of the trial, and how Russian state media have found no heroes on either side. And, British press reacts to the Biden administration’s steps against the coronavirus and its economic toll. Find more coverage of media from around the world at monitoring.bbc.co.uk.
Global View from the BBC for February 26-28, looking at international coverage of some U.S. stories.
Coverage from France, Australia and Spain on the US reaching 500,000 coronavirus fatalities; Chinese media express shock at US plans for re-opening; media in Israel and the Palestinian territories get used to a change in tone from the US administration.
Find more coverage of media from around the world at monitoring.bbc.co.uk.
BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Ibtihaj Muhammed: A Journey Bigger than Me
Interview conducted in an upstairs room at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC. Plus, a trip to New York.
BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, American Judaism after the Tree of Life
Has the worst anti-Semitic attack in America’s history exposed the divisions among American Jews?
99% Invisible: Episode 72- New Old Town
Glad to have this out in the world, and on the best little radio show here or anywhere.
Like many cities in Central Europe, Warsaw is made up largely of grey, ugly, communist block-style architecture. Except for one part: The Old Town.
(Credi: Andy Wright)
Walking through the historic district, it’s just like any other quaint European city. There are…
World Report - Guns
Always great to follow the inimitable Dan Karpenchuck.
Broadcast on RTE Radio 1.
Goodnight, Warsaw. Sleep tight.
Don’t go dropping those dreams in the river below,
you’ve got too much pride, I know.
I was on TVP2 recently.
Apparently, “Anderson Cooper” lost his stuff on the air talking about “Dyngus Day” in Buffalo, New York. Poles are funny!
And yet, Poland was insulted. I had to set them straight, by explaining that Mr. Cooper, despite surviving an attack by a mob of Egyptian protesters, can’t handle the word “dingus” and “pussywillow” in the same sentence.
For the record, the day after Easter is traditionally a brilliant semi-holiday of spring rejuvenation and rebirth. Boys chase girls around with buckets of water and splash them, firefighters set up water guns and spray passers-by. It’s all in good, if annoying, fun.
So, the Polish American tradition of Polka dancing (unheard of here), drinking too much beer (less unheard of) and basically acting like it’s St. Patrick’s day for Poles is… a Polish American tradition.
Oh! How many hours I spent working with this audio. I took a section, EQ’d, pulled out hum… etc. and then decided I could make it work.
But! The tape turned at different speeds throughout. Hum frequencies would drift. It became a white whale for me.
Glad to see it’s found a home… enjoy!
(Source: blankonblank.org)