I think someone should get thier lawyers to review the code of conduct and round table questions in advance before agreeing to anything. Also final review of the piece before airing.
I am interested too…
I promise not to beat any blues up and appear clearheaded and polite.
My schedule is flexible.
There is no way I could do it.
I’m from the south and I can see the shame the foreign community would collectively feel when I show up drunk, chewing betel nut, wearing my rolex watch with matching plastic slippers and cheesy print shirt, screaming “Taiwan Independence”…screaming it in Taiwanese of course. 
OK, enough already…i can see that this will be a very lively afternoon! A friend (Taiwanese) works at CTI and merely asked if i knew some people who would be interested in the above idea. Some cynical part of me suspected it might draw out mainly expatriate Americans after their fifteen minutes of TV exposure that is everbody’s Warhol-given right, but any other country’s expats are welcome. the main thing is that you can talk in English and have some informed POV…this is a piece in prep for the run up to their local legislature elections. I am too much of a newbie to seriously contribute, and as you may be able to tell, i find local TV incomprehensible (not to mention inscrutable) due to a language barrier…so i have no idea of the way it (CTI) comes across to those in the know.
I am glad to see that at least some people can reply Without going straight to the deeply hidden and well buried subtext, remember the computer i am using is truly colour blind and gender free…thanks 914 etc
Details i suppose can start here: best time is Saturday 3 to 3:30pm but i have no idea of a suitable place: prolly in the centre of the city maybe a restaurant in Dunhua/RenAi area? any suggestions appreciated.
start a list of available people by copying this paragraph and adding your name, we will have to stop at about 10 people i suppose.
BTW i am a Anglo Aussie male science writer with pretty green views, so you were all correct in your presumptions, weren’t you.
I got an email from my publisher, who was contacted by the station asking if I was interested in doing this. I’m still not sure if I want to, though.
Saturday afternoon in Taipei is fine with me. What is it you want us to do? Copy the paragraph above and then what–mail it to you?
Is this a one-off?
How much are they paying?
I think that the makeup of the panel ought to be considered carefully. I have been here almost 20 years now with more than half of that in media. Although I have not been suggested as someone who ought to participate, I think that if I were, I’d want to be talking to people who actually have some idea of what they are talking about instead of people who are so new that they have not been exposed to the situation fully.
Not that longevity here makes the ultimate litmus test; I can think of people who have interesting ideas about Taiwan but who would be counterproductive to a panel discussion.
Funny that Lol hasn’t been mentioned; he has forgotten more about Taiwan than most people will ever know.
This does sound, however, like another TV station jumping on the “show foreigners” bandwagon. “Look how international we are!” Can you balance a ball on your nose?
Fred Smith must be included.
And if sufficient gratuities are included I may even be tempted to venture up from Tainan.
If you’re looking for a Dunhua/Renai location, then there’s a 24 hr Swenson’s there. There’s also 24hr New York Bagel. Both pretty neutral places and large enough to accomodate 10 people.
Another possible location could be EZ Coffee in the Senseio bookstore. It’s downstairs and usually has room on the weekends. It’s kid friendly too.
OK, checked a few places: swensons at renai is too busy on saturdays for them to accept a group (or so they say) so perhaps EZ coffee is the go. 3 to 3.15 meeting time, the reporter suggests interested parties ring her to confirm their attendance…
Yu-Hong 0937-023666 CTI-TV.
i will be there to maybe meet some of these posters face to face, and chip in my impresssions of taiwan political campaigning as an outsider but will sit this out if the house is full…
please post the address, yellow cartman… and we respect your authority in this matter
[quote=“urodacus”]OK, checked a few places: swensons at Ren’ai is too busy on saturdays for them to accept a group (or so they say) so perhaps EZ coffee is the go. 3 to 3.15 meeting time, the reporter suggests interested parties ring her to confirm their attendance…
Yu-Hong 0937-023666 CTI-TV.
I will be there to maybe meet some of these posters face to face, and chip in my impresssions of Taiwan political campaigning as an outsider but will sit this out if the house is full…
please post the address, yellow cartman… and we respect your authority in this matter[/quote]
Senseio Bookstore (Dunhua Branch)
259 DunHua S. Rd. Sec. 1, Taipei
Phone Number: (886-2)2703-7777/2700-7000
Map
You can also go to www.taiwan-map.com/en_bookstore.asp search Senseio.
Bookstore is located on the Renai Circle and DunHua S. Rd. Entrance on DunHua. EZ Coffee is downstairs toward the right so use the downstairs entrance to the bookstore.
I may not be there.
See you guys there.
Did you do it? If so, how was it, who took part, and when can we see it?
Thanks for the nomination tetsuo but I think I might better take a pass on this one. The only thing I know less about than Taiwanese politics is Canadian politics.
[quote=“bob”]Thanks for the nomination tetsuo but I think I might better take a pass on this one. The only thing I know less about than Taiwanese politics is Canadian politics.[/quote]:lol: I think Tetsuo nominated both of us for the entertainment value rather than enlightenment 
I think the people ought to all talk in funny voices and wear disguises. Hey, they want us for entertainment, not our keen political acumen.
O.K. I’ll come then but I’m still a bit worried that my tourettes and spastic bowel might put a few people off.
So what happened? Did anything eventuate? Don’t tell me this thing fizzled…