Flying home for Christmas … eventually : 1995 : Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow

“Ground staff have told me our plane is four inches too close to the gate,” the pilot announced in a tone midway between bewilderment and exasperation. “I have had to order a tow truck which will attach to the aircraft to pull it backwards, so I apologise that it will be some time before we can all disembark.”

‘Some time’... [continues]
#GrantGoddard #Metromedia #radio #Russia #travel #media
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2023/09/flying-home-for-christmas-eventually.html

> When Monique Dauphin died in a fire last winter, it barely registered as news.
> La Presse wrote three paragraphs about the fatal blaze and TVA Nouvelles dedicated five sentences to Dauphin’s death.
> In fact, neither outlet published the victim’s name, they merely relayed the fire department’s version of events.
> But when the news reached Jean Numa Goudou’s desk, he did what any good reporter would, he started digging deeper. The victim, Dauphin, was beloved in Montreal’s Haitian community, she was a lifelong activist who fought for migrant rights and helped countless women get settled in Canada.
> “The fire sent shockwaves through our community, the Haitian community,” said Goudou. “I said to myself, we have to speak about her, this is an inconceivable tragedy for us."

Source: https://therover.ca/metro-media-folds/

#MetroMedia #Montréal #SauvonsMetro

«The abrupt closure of the #MetroMedia group, which includes more than twenty hyperlocal publications in #Montreal & #QuebecCity, is a real "atom bomb" for local news, according to several observers of the #Quebec #media landscape.

Shortly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday, the company's president and CEO, #AndrewMulé, announced to his employees, colleagues and collaborators "the immediate suspension of operations of Métro, all (its) newspapers and (its) #community websites."»

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/an-atomic-bomb-for-local-news-metro-media-shuts-down-all-publications-1.6515921

Métro Média suspend abruptement ses activités

#médias #presseécrite #MétroMédia #journal

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/medias/2023-08-11/metro-media-suspend-abruptement-ses-activites.php

From Russia with lawlessness : 1994 : Metromedia, Park Place, Moscow

“I am a paediatric doctor,” said the young woman cleaning the toilet bowl in the bathroom of my apartment. “I work at the hospital during the day but I cannot live on my salary, so I have to work as a cleaner every evening.”

I was... [continues]
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https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-russia-with-lawlessness-1994.html

The invisible manager : 1993 : Bud Stiker, Radio Juventus, Hungary

Nazi soldiers were everywhere. Battalions of Nazis marching down wide boulevards. Nazis standing on convoys of tanks, waving flags. Row upon row of Nazis saluting speeches by their leader. Nazis fighting on battle... [continues]
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https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-invisible-manager-1993-bud-stiker.html