Watching TV is a loss of time - Amy Gu in Hong Kong


Amy Gu told already that she started as a 'spy in training' in Hong Kong. On the new picture we see her in action. Today, in Connecting China, we explore the change in her media habits.

Amy started a few weeks ago to study at the journalism department of HKU, as she reports on her new weblog, Amy in Hong Kong. (You need a proxy to watch it on the mainland.)
In Shenzhen she would never touch a hardcover paper anymore, but would only get her information online. She subscribe to Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, thefeature and Total Telecom, since she was working for China Mobile. Sina.com she read for the Chinese news. Now in Hong Kong, she has to make her hands dirty again and started to read the South China Morning Post, that is one of very few media that has cordoned off their information for non-paying internet users. Every now and then she also buys the Daily Apple.
"So so," she says about the quality of the SCMP, but at least it is more in depth than The Standard, the only English language competitor, and she gets literarly more value for money: about double the size. "I should improve my English ASAP, that is why I'm doing it," she says.
Watching TV is loss of time, she says, but she continued to listen to the radio, the same she would also receive in Shenzhen: HK Commercial Radio and HK Xing-Cheng entertainment. Amy Gu: "But that is also because I want to improve my Cantonese, In Shenzhen I did not need that as much as in Hong Kong."