Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
Culture of Protest: Shoeing
October 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday, a 24 year old Turkish university student, who is a journalist at the same time at a small left wing newspaper, BirGün, has thrown his Nike shoe at IMF‘s president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while he was taking questions from students, after his speech at Istanbul Bilgi University. This was a protest that was influenced from [...]
Tags: Ahmedabad, Beşir Atalay, BirGün, Dainik Jagaran, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, egging, flag burning, flag desacration, George W Bush, IMF, iraq, Istanbul, Istanbul Bilgi University, Jarnail Singh, journalism, journalist, Manmohan Singh, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Nike, P. Chidambaram, pieing, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters, Selçuk Özbek, shoe, shoe throwing, shoeing, Sikh journalist, Turkey, Turkish politics, Wen Jiabao, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum in Davos
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
A Myth: Turkish Readers
August 8th, 2009 by lifeproof
A few days ago, I have come across a TV newscast that provided the statistical information on book readership in countries. According to this survey, Japan is the most book reading country in the world with 25 books per person in one year. The list goes down to some European countries such as Switzerland with [...]
Tags: authorship, book readership, book writing, France, Japan, journalism, newscast, publishing, readership, statistics, Switzerland, Turkey
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles