Return to the wild and the dubai movie industry, sorry media industry

Returning back to work after the holidays feels like bieng back at school after summer break. Our offices moved to a new and better location which has new and not so better rules!

Currently we have been relocated right next to where the enemy sleeps! we share a news room with our competitor which is quiet wiered for any newspaper.

Office politics aside, a new realisation has dawned upon myself today concerning the journalists and media people in dubai. media life has become a miniturized showbiz life, with the news issues bieng the movie releases, the people in the news are the characters in the films and the journalists reporting them are the super stars of the block buster while the news papers are the film houses.

Such is one reporter who i know through my courts and crime beat, with out naming any names, this character could be described as the Paris Hilton of the Dubai media circles.

Hot, sassy and very tenacious could describe that person, but at the same time this character can be described as a risky and dodgy person to deal with -from personal experience-

A few months back when i first met our local media perosn Paris Hilton, i was intriuged by her. I have heard alot about her from colleagues and have seen some of her movie releases with in the local media. Never the less i smelt a rat i did not feel comfortable with paris at all and felt she always carried a mask and was not sinciere.

One good day as my colleagues and my self were doing the daily grind at the halls of Dubai Courts and trying to desperately produce the next oscar worthy short film we were blocked by the court clerks announcing to us that no cases will be disclosed to us according to orders from the criminals court judge.

Ten days later in the aftermath of a dried up crime movie industry in the local media we rectify the situation with the courts and stories and cases were released to us again.

Apparently paris hilton had a melt down with one of the clerks leading to a court judge bieng involved and then deciding not to disclose case details to any journalist.

Over the months many more episodes happened leading to alot of internal gossip about ms Hilton between the media circles.

Over the next few months i am sure you will see many posts about ms hiltons actions that will always continue to amuse you.

An intersting movie release with in the media was last weeks american consulate threat entitled "the threat" this movie which was simutaneously released by two papers had a set of completely different cast story and plot!

Although the theme was the same but the characters and motives were completely different in the two versions which were released in two consecutive days.

-Police have arrested an American national who made a malicious report that the United States consulate in Dubai was under a security threat-here is how the story changes -->

story 1.
The suspect, who is a Lebanese, but carries US nationality, had made a malicious report against a Sudanese man, claiming that the Sudanese man was planning to do something against the US consulate in Dubai. The suspect who is a resident, made the report because the Sudanese man cheated the suspect after taking his Dh700,000 claiming that he could double his money for him.
Lieutenant General Dahi said police arrested the Sudanese, who is a visitor, for conning the suspect.

story 2.
On Tuesday, the police received a call from a Syrian man using an etisalat public payphone, claiming that a Sudanese man was planning to attack the US consulate. The Syrian identified the Sudanese to the police, Tamim said. The Sudanese, an employee of the US Consulate, was summoned by the police, and after investigations it was found that he posed no threat to the consulate. The Syrian man wanted to “create trouble” for the Sudanese national. The Syrian has been arrested.

i personally like the second version because my country man has been cleared but to you which one seems more credible!

ahh the movie industry, i mean the media industry in Dubai is fun!!!!!

cya when i cya

My first ever posting!

Hi this is my first ever blog posting, pretty lame for a career writer eh.

no worries though, well its about 4:10 a.m Sunday morning, in about five hours i have to be in my office reporting back from leave. i just returned from a 12 day trip to Sudan checking out the pre Egyptian pyramids that are there.

hopefully soon i will put the pics up along with the story i will publish. - i have to say i hate it when people say in blogs that i will put this or that up, because it usually takes for ever to be done, but do remember

THIS IS MY FIRST POSTING :)

the trip was not a success as a contingent of reporters were supposed to accompany me to check it out and all but one have failed to show up due to various reasons, visa trouble, Gaza war or just being shit scared to venture off to Africa!

the pyramids though were an unbelievable sight. standing high and mighty between the desert sands since 300 b.c.

next to the pyramids you can see the temples and the royal city which holds the sacrificial bed where they laid down the most beautiful virgin in the kingdom and slit her throat to appease the god of the sun.

sounds nasty, man am i glad i live now and here to just be a tourist to this site not a witness :)

well now that i am back to the real world one has to re-assess ones priorities.
a trip like this one is like a pilgrimage, it clears the mind and gives one a perspective.

cya when i cya!