BEDA #17

I'm not writing under the influence of drinkydrink today~~

Random thought of the day: I keep forgetting @Manvels/ manuel used to be ameliepoule on twitter, and his youtube username's still ameliepoule. And he made a new video today: http://youtu.be/MB3yax4NetU

actually he's doing VEDA. I didn't even know he was doing VEDA until I watched this video. -_-" So you can tell that I'm a bad youtube friend. xD

Speaking of, I still have to edit the video that I made today, so it can be up tomorrow.

I don't want to edit this video *whines* I talked for 20 minutes! and the resulting video has to be about 4 min, and I talk so SLOWLY like an eejit. (vocabulary word for the day.)

okay. discipline. I'm not coming back until the video is edited and rendering.

back! I'm done! it's rendering.

If you want a more coherent i.e. ACTUALLY EDITED blog-type things on politics, here you go: http://veryfinecommentary.tk/articles/unchecked-and-unbalanced/

They've just put up a whole bunch of political articles, since the general election is coming up.

Go read! It's very comprehensive and professional.

Speaking of news and current affairs, the biggest newspaper here is really CRAP. The reporting on political and economical issues is so-so. But some of the entertainment/ leisure articles are horrible. It's ghastly, the quality of reporting. Sometimes I'll read an article and think "hey... this is too good to be written by the regular reporter." and I'll scan to the bottom, and it'll cite "AP" or "NYT". All the good stuff is pulled from other newspapers, because they can't write their own content.

I think the lousy quality is partly because this paper has an almost-monopoly on the newspaper market; there's another newspaper, but it's not as prominent as the main one. The other newspaper can't even afford to charge money for it-- because it distributes freely. Or rather it does not want to risk being put on the stands next to the main paper, because they won't be able to make a profit. Not that the articles in the other paper are any better, sometimes. Oh well. What can you do with a small market and strict censorship laws?

A lot, actually. A lot of the stuff is online. hum.