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Sep. 8th, 2007 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricYou've got to make your own fun in the APEC venue at Darling Harbour. The vast media hangar is beginning to resemble the anarchic New Orleans Superdome in which refugees from Hurricane Katrina famously rampaged out of control in 2005...
Running dangerously low on original material, reporters are feasting on each other. Gangs of journalists from The Australian are roaming the complex, brutalising anyone who cannot list all underperforming nations in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation talks, by individual industry, while simultaneously tapping out the Stars and Stripes with their right foot....
It has all stopped making sense. Is anything real? Is everybody on drugs? Even the coverage of serious APEC issues seems clouded by a hallucinogenic haze of uncertainty...
Happily, there is a new game that can be enjoyed uncontroversially by all APEC observers, including readers at home.
It's called Bilateral Bingo. First, you take a blank sheet of paper and draw a grid with nine squares. In each of those squares, write one of the following words or phrases: wide-ranging; constructive; broad agreement; frank exchange; mutually beneficial; further enhancement of our already robust …; agreed to have further detailed discussions; continue to build and grow; great respect
Now, wait for the next joint press conference; it won't be a long wait, as these events follow bilateral meetings with all the inevitability of a trench-coated Salusinszky tailing Fulwood home from the gym.
-Newideas from Annabel Crabbe this morning.
Running dangerously low on original material, reporters are feasting on each other. Gangs of journalists from The Australian are roaming the complex, brutalising anyone who cannot list all underperforming nations in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation talks, by individual industry, while simultaneously tapping out the Stars and Stripes with their right foot....
It has all stopped making sense. Is anything real? Is everybody on drugs? Even the coverage of serious APEC issues seems clouded by a hallucinogenic haze of uncertainty...
Happily, there is a new game that can be enjoyed uncontroversially by all APEC observers, including readers at home.
It's called Bilateral Bingo. First, you take a blank sheet of paper and draw a grid with nine squares. In each of those squares, write one of the following words or phrases: wide-ranging; constructive; broad agreement; frank exchange; mutually beneficial; further enhancement of our already robust …; agreed to have further detailed discussions; continue to build and grow; great respect
Now, wait for the next joint press conference; it won't be a long wait, as these events follow bilateral meetings with all the inevitability of a trench-coated Salusinszky tailing Fulwood home from the gym.
-Newideas from Annabel Crabbe this morning.