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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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When Chinese press conference cliches go wrong

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 6:43 AM by will
Imagethief has always been annoyed by the Chinese inclination to festoon press conferences with flowers. Spokespeople get corsages. Dais tables and podiums get bouquets. You'd think you were at a wedding if weren't for the fact that everyone is bored Read More...
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He's guilty of premeditated press releases!

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 8:22 PM by will
In an auto-congratulatory Xinhua piece on media freedom this morning, Imagethief was pleased to see the following among the proof points offered: Starting this month, the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, which straddles the Yangtze River, instituted Read More...
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Don't mention the leadership changes

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 6:32 AM by will
On behalf of all of his journalist friends (don't hide, you know who you are), Imagethief was pleased to read in today's China Daily that foreign journalists are to be allowed more access than ever to the upcoming National Party Congress. According to Read More...
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Media and the modern cadre

Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 4:21 AM by will
Imagethief was gratified on behalf of spin-doctors everywhere to read a few days ago in the China Daily that the CCP is finally taking PR seriously : Party leaders of the future will be better equipped to face the media, well versed in international affairs Read More...
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Photo opp cliche of the day

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:21 AM by will
Imagethief has previously ranted about Chinese photo opp cliches in this space (and for the sake of completeness, here too ). That's why I was interested to spot a photograph on Xinhua today of a joint Microsoft-Lenovo event. Here it is : PR and event Read More...
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American IPR hawks, remember the little people

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:39 PM by will
Imagethief has read with some dismay of American plans to bring a complaint against China in the WTO as a result of China's flagrant piracy problem. This is typically short-sighted of American industrial interests. If the US government knuckles under Read More...
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NFL: China not ready for some football

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:37 AM by will
Imagethief grew up in San Francisco. In the 1970s I was far too preoccupied with Star Wars to pay any attention to football (I was ten when the movie came out, and it stamped itself right onto my tiny frontal lobes). However I came of age in high school, Read More...
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