Do
you
know
who
is
this man?
No?Alright his name is Timothy Go, he's from the Philippines.
Still doesn't ring a bell?
Well let me give you a bigger clue, his occupation: News Reporter
Timothy Go presents Channel NewsAsia’s line-up of daily news bulletins, World Today and Asia Today and also Singapore Business Tonight. He is also the host and producer of That's IT, a weekly digital lifestyle programme, which has given him the opportunity to meet many of technology's leading names like Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Timothy also spent a year in Hong Kong, from where he co-anchored Primetime News. He has also presented the channel’s morning show, Primetime Morning.
Still no idea?well there is no surprise, even he agrees with that, in fact, he was the one that said it when he came to give a talk this afternoon in my college.
What exactly did he said? He mentioned about the prevalent availability of other forms of new media that is slowly eroding the viewership of older forms of the media, case in point, the plummeting viewership of the Television (news in particular) nowadays. This is especially true in Singapore, where the society is often labelled as "kiasu". People here work harder than any other in her neighbours because living life is here is very competitve. Anyways coming back to my original point of why Singaporeans are watching less of TV, it is simply because they are too busy to come back (home) to sit down to watch a scheduled program at a specific time.
For instance, people no longer catch the 7pm news, most people may still be outside - say - working, on the way home, still in school? In addition, why watch the news on TV anyways?Nowadays you can access whatever recent happenings simply by the click of your mouse; it is time saving, more specific to provide informations tailored to your need and fuss free.
Anyways I got the privilege of asking him a few questions and yes it was a very 'edutaining' (educational and entertaining) experience for me. I personally feel that he's a pretty darn nice guy...not fake, funny, knowledgeable and can think on his feet (well of course). Of course I do not aspire to be a news reporter or a journalist, but I just love the feeling of being able to interact with different people from multifarious walks of life. I feel that it enriches one's life and gave us alternatives to our somewhat narrow point of view and of course gave us a small peek to the feeling of being in that person's shoes. Or a more likely explanation is just that it's the Socialite in me acting up xp
Alrights interview this Sat, hope I make it. Meanwhile? Busy busy busy Bus bu b BBB...
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