Teleplus Gets Two-And-Half Times More YouTube Views Than L'Express

After adjusting for how long they've been around. Teleplus has clocked 18.3m views on its YouTube channel since June 3 of last year which is a bit more than one third what L'Express received. Of course L'Express has been there more than seven times longer. So about 40,700 views are registered on Teleplus on a daily basis compared to 15,700 for L'Express. TOP TV gets 13,400 daily views – unlike Teleplus and L'Express it doesn't have any newspapers or magazines – while ION News grabs 9,400 views every day. Radio One too has a channel and it gets 3,300 views each day. Surprisingly one pretty good media platform doesn't have its channel yet.

It would be interesting to adjust these numbers for the types of videos hosted. Like what is the split between thrash/quality reporting. Who should do that? MRC, UoM or ICTA?

Management Contract of La Sentinelle Suspended

That's coming after the owners of Radio One replaced Jean-Claude de L'estrac with Farook Hossen as Chairman. The island's largest press group will challenge this decision. A new general manager has already been nominated.

Have you noticed any difference in the way R1 processes information since these changes have taken place?

Body Language, Arithmetic and Fact

First body language. Berenger looks quite preoccupied throughout the interview he gave to Jean-Luc Emile yesterday. His body language seems to be saying that he has lost today's elections.

Next arithmetic. He reads from an "NIU report" and tell us that the secret services are expecting 37 seats for his group, 19 for Labour, 8 for MSM and 2 for the PMSD. The snag is that the total of these numbers makes 66 seats! Also pay close attention to his body language (after 7m55s) when Emile asks him whether it's not a fake document.

Finally, he says he lost the 2005 by a thin margin. Not quite. He lost by 6.2% in terms of the votes but he got 16 seats less than Ramgoolam. A 6% difference has been enough to give a comfortable majority of seats to a government each time that has happened. More on this later.

Imrith Saying Financial Secretary Second-guesses Parliament

You can listen to the interview he gave to Deepa Bhookun here and feel totally outraged. If that's true -- and it's easy to verify -- then Mansoor should immediately be given a one-way ticket to Foggy Bottom.

What's it with February anyway? Three years ago Sithanen second-guessed Ramgoolam with respect to one of his prerogatives: the nomination of the Governor of the Central Bank.