Friday, September 05, 2008

A Hong Kong journalist under stress

Previous ATV logo, which was phased out in Oct...via Wikipedia A reader has sent me this link of the always alert reporters of the French newswire AFP, who use every opportunity to alert their bosses to their stressful working conditions. Mostly sexually inspired reports focus on politicians and starlets, but the news of Chiu Yu-kit, a former journalist at Asia Television (ATV), caught masturbating naked on a Hong Kong bus, was obvious too much to resist.
As in most cases, the fact that Chiu was caught suggests this overstressed journalist was actually looking for attention he did not get in another way. I have been spending many hours with equally stressed journalists in busses, but have not seen this happening.
Now, next dilemma, what picture to put next to this piece of investigative journalism? I see pictures of colleagues like Andrew Lih and Jay Rosen showing up at my Zemanta search engine, but I cannot do that. Let's do something really boring.
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1 Comments:

Blogger Maria Trombly said...

Fons --

You are absolutely right. I am a very stressed journalist. And when I ride Shanghai buses, I'm often even more stressed.

But, despite the heat, stress, and other factors, I have never once taken my clothes off. :-)

-- Maria

11:01 PM  

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