The circus has begun and the clowns are on stage.

Thank you. My brother is moving to France soon, so I look forward to visiting often!

So why did the KMT not succeed in getting votes against DPP? Incompetence, laziness, and lack of motivation. The KMT/TPP have control, why do they need to recall anyone? Motivation and a passionate core explains why the pro-recall side passed 10%. But not enough to convince public at large.

I could write a book or two on this subject, but I'll leave it at that for now.

Finally, of course, compensation is inevitably an issue. Talent doesn't come for free, and especially international talent. But the way PTS operates makes it completely impossible to pay either int'l or local talent what it takes to make T+ a true success.

Recruitment was too focused on English ability imo, and the structure of the newsroom is wrong. Reporters should lead coverage, not editors, but if your reporters don't bring stories then editorial has no choice but to lead.

Stories are rejected all the time for terrible camera work, poor sound, etc. To make local stories work for T+ audience, T+ needs to shoot them. But often the staff lack the experience or simply time to follow the story make the contacts etc. They need to produce a few hours' worth of content daily.

The piece highlights several of the key issues, number one of which is recruitment. You're asking a team to make news that stands up to standards Western audiences expect. Repackages of local news (one of the main routes T+ gets local stories) doesn't cut it.

There is zero chance that any editors at T+ don't know who Jay Chou is. But a discussion of whether an international audience will know who he is is likely to have taken place.

Her role was precisely to be someone who knows nothing about Taiwan -- they are the TA for T+ as far as everyone at the company is aware. Domestic is not the target audience; so if she says she doesn't see why it's important that's for the reporter to sell the story to her and the audience.

The NZ consultant, who no longer works there, never chose stories, she only offered advice and most importantly, she told us how to convert them to TV, how to use the resources of TV news (lives, packages, interviews) to tell a story for int'l audiences.

Clearly, through common sense, everyone knows that's not what they actually want. But without clear instructions we also had to operate based on the resources and personnel provided to us. Senior reporters have always been int'l focused, not domestic. This drives coverage.

The only differences I can see are the "Highlights" section has been scrubbed of recent news and a section about donating COVID vaccines has been deleted.