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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat May 24th, 2008 at 05:06:06 AM EST
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While I do read eurotrib almost daily I know I should do something about posting too. ;-)

I agree with you here - While I could post some, as you say, "informative" posts about what happens in this corner of the EU, as the coverage of CZ in the global/european media is virtually non-existent, it's sort of the lack of debate around it/perceived lack of interest that's slightly putting me off (and a cough little bit of laziness), not to forget the fact I sadly don't pay that much attention to local politics as I should have.

But the more important thing I've been wondering about is how to frame such posts.

The language disconnect between the global and local media leads to 'theme/issue' disconnect - ie. issuess which are hotly debated here are often ignored here and what is pushed as important here may be of no interest to people outside of the CZ (like corruption of cabinet members, etc).
It does not help much that most of the foreign news is coming via state-run news agency (similar to the current outcry in the US that virtually all of the foreign news is just rehashed AP/Reuters). But even the coverage of the European parliament (and hence no local opinions one could report/translate/summarize).

Sometimes there are issues which could be certainly of interest - the US radar site, recent recognition of Kosovo - which Klaus considers shameful, the healthcare deform (the ruling coalition wants to introduce "managed healthcare" as seen in the US(!)).

But I promise I will try to think about it a little bit more ;-)

by jv (euro@junkie.cz) on Sat May 24th, 2008 at 08:25:12 PM EST
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