My Week In Media: Anna Chen
Monday, 30 April 2007
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Last week I read...
Worrying news in the Indy that China is about to overtake America as the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases. The London Evening Standard's scary tales of a downturn in the property market are fairly amusing for those of us whose properties are a home, not an investment. Private Eye had a hilarious cover of Blair looking through a microscope saying: "Oh look - it's my legacy!"
Last week I listened to...
I usually time my cooking or washing up so I can listen to PM and Front Row on Radio 4. Shock horror last week from Mark Lawson on the disappearance of the children's CBeebies favourite In The Night Garden. Stirring stuff.
Last week I watched...
The super-powered protagonists in Heroes, which is my Buffy and Angel replacement, have started to connect with each other, and the mystery deepens with the revelation that the cheerleader's dad is arranging for memories to be wiped.
Doctor Who is beautiful if histrionic. In the two-parter concluded on Saturday, the Daleks take over Manhattan and ruthlessly exploit construction workers on the Empire State Building - a metaphor for capitalism running amok.
Channel 4 News showed disturbing testimony from Private Jessica Lynch and from the brother of a sports hero who was killed by his own side in the mess that is Iraq. Lynch derided her description as a "Little Girl Rambo" when she'd actually been saved by Iraqis. A sea change is emerging in the American consciousness as they wake up to the fact that they have been lied to by their leaders.
Last week I surfed...
Greg Palast (www.gregpalast.com) for a savage indictment of the US gun lobby. Not only are the gun manufacturers making more guns than can legally be bought; President Bush signed a grant of immunity from lawsuits for them, making it the only industry with no responsibility for its products. I read The Onion (www.theonion.com); how can you not love a site with headlines like "Nation's Wealthiest One Percent Demand Minority Status"?
Anna Chen presents Chinese in Britain, a daily 10-part history, beginning today at 3.45pm on BBC Radio 4
