Ed Moon 艾永青

The circus has begun and the clowns are on stage.

Thank you. My brother is moving to France soon, so I look forward to visiting often!

(My) Great Taiwan Recall One era ends, another begins.

On why I left Taiwan.

open.substack.com/pub/theeasta...

So why did the KMT not succeed in getting votes against DPP? Incompetence, laziness, and lack of motivation. The KMT/TPP have control, why do they need to recall anyone? Motivation and a passionate core explains why the pro-recall side passed 10%. But not enough to convince public at large.

Anyone who is surprised that all these recalls could fail despite gathering all those signatures needs to understand:
Almost every district can summon 30% support for blue/green camps. 10% is the amount of signatures needed.

Early days but if these results hold, a lot of self-professed Taiwan experts need to take a long, hard look in the mirror about how they completely misjudged support for the recalls.

Today is a pivotal day for bi-national couples and families: for the first time people on the spouse/partner visa route were listened to by a Committee that wanted to learn what life is really like when you want to live in the UK and were moved by what we read in the report #FamiliesBelongTogether🧵

I could write a book or two on this subject, but I'll leave it at that for now.

Finally, of course, compensation is inevitably an issue. Talent doesn't come for free, and especially international talent. But the way PTS operates makes it completely impossible to pay either int'l or local talent what it takes to make T+ a true success.

Recruitment was too focused on English ability imo, and the structure of the newsroom is wrong. Reporters should lead coverage, not editors, but if your reporters don't bring stories then editorial has no choice but to lead.

Stories are rejected all the time for terrible camera work, poor sound, etc. To make local stories work for T+ audience, T+ needs to shoot them. But often the staff lack the experience or simply time to follow the story make the contacts etc. They need to produce a few hours' worth of content daily.

The piece highlights several of the key issues, number one of which is recruitment. You're asking a team to make news that stands up to standards Western audiences expect. Repackages of local news (one of the main routes T+ gets local stories) doesn't cut it.

There is zero chance that any editors at T+ don't know who Jay Chou is. But a discussion of whether an international audience will know who he is is likely to have taken place.

Her role was precisely to be someone who knows nothing about Taiwan -- they are the TA for T+ as far as everyone at the company is aware. Domestic is not the target audience; so if she says she doesn't see why it's important that's for the reporter to sell the story to her and the audience.

The NZ consultant, who no longer works there, never chose stories, she only offered advice and most importantly, she told us how to convert them to TV, how to use the resources of TV news (lives, packages, interviews) to tell a story for int'l audiences.

Clearly, through common sense, everyone knows that's not what they actually want. But without clear instructions we also had to operate based on the resources and personnel provided to us. Senior reporters have always been int'l focused, not domestic. This drives coverage.

Seeing as I am soon to leave the company, I will list out a few replies to points in the article. The English version had the xenophobic edges sanded off by Kwangyin.
From the start, the only instruction on editorial policy received by the team is that T+ should operate as an int'l news channel.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

"Some random country that hasn't fought a war in 40 years..."

Over 500 dead British and French personnel (more than 1,000 total European fatalities) and c10,000 injured in Afghanistan 2001-2021. The only time Article 5 has been invoked.

'Disrespect' does not reside in lack of a suit, Mr Vance. ~AA

China hits back at U.S. imports as Trump's fresh tariffs take effect China on Tuesday swiftly retaliated against fresh U.S. tariffs, announcing 10%-15% hikes to import levies covering a range of American agricultural and food products, and placing twenty-five U.S. firms under export and investment restrictions.

China swiftly retaliated against fresh US tariffs, announcing 10%-15% hikes to import levies covering a range of American agricultural and food products, and placing twenty-five US firms under export and investment restrictions reut.rs/4h2kylT

TSMC Announces Additional US$100B Investment in U.S.

Can follow the latest reaction from Taiwan and around the world here:
www.taiwanplus.com/news/live-ne...

💥Our new report conducted by Frontier Economics dropped over the weekend.

Revealing how deep alignment with the EU on goods & services could boost UK GDP by up to 2.2% - double the estimated impact of a UK-US trade deal.

Now here's what this kind of deal could do for the EU.👇1/

Senator Ron Wyden told me today it looks an awful lot like a coup - full Decoder coming Monday but it felt like we should get this clip out there

The only differences I can see are the "Highlights" section has been scrubbed of recent news and a section about donating COVID vaccines has been deleted.

How Taiwan became a quiet bond market superpower And why it could blow up in everyone’s face

www.ft.com/content/972c...

Saved myself the pain and didn't listen to it when I saw who the guest was.

TaiwanPlus's budget has been cut by 20% and funds "frozen" (in essence means you must satisfy lawmakers' demands before money is released) 30%. The stated reason being the "inappropriate" description of Trump as a "convicted felon."

郭昱晴 (@jeankuo329) on Threads 傍晚得知國民黨非常離譜的全數減列公視23億的預算，等於就是要叫公視直接關台！ 不久前文化部審查公共電視預算的時候，在野黨一直拿TaiwanPlus開刀，用下載數（而非觀看數的2億次）挑剔其成效，用近期的節目內容爭議放大缺失，完全無視Taiwan Plus是台灣首個全英語新聞資訊內容的國際媒體平台，讓國際可以透過台灣Plus，了解台灣觀點，聽見台灣故事的本意。 而一個才成立3年，從零開始，好不容易慢...

KMT proposal to cut the entirety of PTS (and TaiwanPlus) budget. TPP has proposed cutting 20% plus freezing 30%. Unclear if either proposal will be adopted (previous negotiation had agreed a 2% cut).

www.threads.net/@jeankuo329/...

四叉貓 - 全域查詢 - 自由時報電子報 自由時報的搜尋機制，協助讀者以關鍵字迅速找到相關新聞和文章。搜尋結果會按時間或相關性排序，並可依新聞分類篩選，精確定位所需資料。有助於讀者快速找到最新或特定主題的新聞報導。

Of course, if I flip it to a green talking head there's a similar amount of "news" which is just regurgitating something they said with no fact checking involved:
search.ltn.com.tw/list?keyword...

中時新聞網 - Chinatimes.com 《中時新聞網》前身為《中時電子報》，於1995年創立，是全台第一家且歷史最悠久的網路媒體，開啟新聞數位時代。近來以最具影響力的政治新聞引領先驅外，首創娛樂、生活、社會專題式新聞報導，帶起同業間仿效風潮；精闢的言論、財經、國際、兩岸、軍事、體育、網推頻道，網羅忠實讀者群；新型態的汽車、房屋、玩食、科技頻道，成為閱聽眾休閒必看選擇。視覺影音上，結合中天新聞直播、FB直播、中時新聞網APP等平台的精彩內...

The second article is quoting what Julian Kuo（郭正亮）said Rigger said. Which is terrible journalism but is not making up a quote per se; he did say it, but he's wrong.
From what I can see there's at least 5 pieces of news per day on China Times on something he said.
www.chinatimes.com/search/%E9%8...