Comments on: Not backing down (Final update)

By: denitza's area

denitza's area — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:52:20 +0000

You are welcome (:

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:14:10 +0000

denitza – Thank you for the follow up. Work is no excuse when it comes to liberty! Heh. Just had to tease a bit.

[Edit: Continues discussion from comments on previous post.]

I’m with you on the avoidance of watching TV. I don’t own one, don’t want to own one. If I stay at a place with TV, I don’t watch it. If I visit a friend who has the TV on, I usually start to go crazy before too much time has passed. There are only a few very rare exceptions to this rule.

I understand what you’re saying about the TV stations, but I’ll have to say that no TV channel will shrink away from recording an event as meaningful as this one. Granted, an production operations manager may decide to go with brief live updates periodically during a regular broadcast instead of a dedicated live feed if the controversy is lower. But to not show up at all? Something nefarious else is going on. Everyone shows up after a “riot” to record the next events for the talking heads of the evening “news” (although they increasingly tend to blather their opinions about news rather than show news). As for the typo, we’ll have to agree that different people report slightly different figures. I’m quoting the source for 3,000 and will leave it be.

I may drop you an email before my next trip to Sofia on the off-chance to meet for coffee or one of those breakfast cheese pastry things. Mmm…

By: denitza's area

denitza's area — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:15:02 +0000

You have a type-o at the beginning. At the protest gathered something like 2500-3000 people

By: Narc

Narc — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:55:06 +0000

Here’s an interesting update, via Novinite: apparently, 27 of the 180 arrested yesterday have been charged and sentenced already — 26 were fined between 30 and 200 BGN, and the last one got five days in jail.

Novinite also reported that one of the people detained is underage (17, by my count), and will therefore be having a look at the juvenile justice system.

The interesting thing is the judges got sent out to the police departments to have the trials on the spot, “to save [...] time and effort in transporting the suspects”. Looks like someone wants to end this whole thing as soon as possible.