I can’t see you, but I know you’re there.
One has to be more than a little concerned with what’s happening in Russia the last few years.
Let’s see: we’ve got ex-spies being poisoned abroad, private energy companies getting nationalized on questionable grounds, trading partners being pressured through the withholding of natural gas in the winter, and high-profile investigative journalists being gunned down at point-blank range.
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I’ve been busy lately. Too busy. Rushing to finish a big Web project before running off to play in NYC, hence the lack of posts.
But I still need to satisfy my news junkie urges. News podcasts to the rescue! My favourite is the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent (also available on iTunes), which paints world events in a slightly personal light. Perfect for those days when you don’t have time to read the newspaper and clean house. Pop it in your iPod, do the dishes, fold laundry, run errands, whatever.
Now all I need is for CBC Radio to finally offer podcast versions of World Report and The World at Six. They have streaming versions on their respective websites, but if I’m sitting in front of my computer, I’m probably doing something that requires my full attention.
Listened to an amazing BBC podcast interview with Spike Lee while doing the dishes this morning (aftermath of a dinner party that ended in the wee hours of the morn…). He just premiered a four-hour documentary about the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Most juicy anecdote: Lee accuses the US government of deliberately blowing up the levees near poor (read black) areas of the city in order to spare wealthier hoods. Wow. Can’t wait to see it. Why can’t we get HBO in Canada, dammit?