DIARY: My media - Richard Pinder regional managing director, Asia-Pacific, Leo Burnett

Television MTV for background relaxation, Star Sports for the bi-weekly Formula 1 fix, and CNN for news (sorry, BBC World). Press My favourite. Highlights include the SCMP - a fantastic source of stories that you just could not see elsewhere, from the "moon cake bribery case" to the "dumpling murders". The FT gives a global perspective on business issues. The new Asiaweek is an invaluable round-up of what's important. And Wallpaper* provides provocation and prejudice in equal measure. Websites www.bmwfilms.com is simply incredible and a clear challenge to us in the ad industry to adapt or die. Before, I'd rarely spent over an hour on any site. Advertising The Cliff Freeman and Partners New York work for Fox Sports and Burnett London's work for John West Salmon, which duelled it out for the Grand Prix at Cannes, are both firmly in the "wish I'd done that" category. It's sad that Asia made little headway there this year. I thought the judges missed an opportunity by passing over the Adfest winner from Dentsu. The real challenge in the region is to raise the average standard of work, and deliver us from the nightly tortuous excesses of style over content. Radio A much-loved medium when I lived in Europe, the car radio hasn't had much exercise in Hong Kong. Blame it on the invention of the mobile phone.

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