MYANMAR

THE U.N. IN MYANMAR/BURMA...

Is it me or is the U.N. completely ineffectual with all its posing and preening in Myanmar? If ever a world body has looked utterly pointless and of no significance, it has to be the U.N. trying to play its role in Myanmar. Looks like the U.N. personnel are making Myanmar a photo opportunity more than anything else. Sad.

MYANMAR

NOTES ON POLITICS...

Oh dear, something terrible is brewing in Myanmar and the results are disturbing. Trying to follow the events on television can be frustrating though -- especially when stations like CNN keep looping scenes repeatedly to fill in for the duration of a commentary.

This is a tiresome habit that TV networks have adopted nowadays. As if in this day and age there could possibly be a shortage of footage! This act of repeatedly looping scenes actually works to demean the event being covered as viewers tend to get emotions that range from being bored to being just plain fed-up with seeing the same scene being "exploited" in loops by the networks.

For heaven's sake - use shots of the country's map or still photos while trying to fill in the time while a commentary is ongoing, along with video footages, of course, instead of looping scenes in a mind numbingly exploitative fashion (to sensationalise events for ratings' sake)!

BUT OF COURSE all the international TV stations are going to make use of this suggestion and not acknowledge that they got the idea from here! Sigh! So much for intellectual property protection!