This Week in Pacifica

This Week in Pacifica, or TWiP, is a weekly newsjournal written and released by Schattenmann with the purpose to ". . . provide you, the people, with interesting, important, or just fun information about Bob's centerpiece, Pacifica."

Format
TWiP covers a few news items from the preceeding week in Pacifica. Items are harvested from pacificorder.net's various subforums and cover everything from policy to awards to diplomatic relations. Each issue is quote and screenshot-rich, and is designed to both entertain the reader with witty, smarmy, and cheeky commentary, while bringing seemingly "unimportant" topics to light of day for the world's interpretation and information. Every "broadcast" begins with an image of Schattenmann's character in a photo reminiscent of a news anchor, with a small 50x27-pixel "Voxed-out" NPO flag in the corner representing a TV channel icon. Schattenmann introduces himself, then proceeds to lay out the night's stories in a short monologue--this being the case, anyone not interested can turn the channel immediately. News items are then covered in a few paragraphs, each denoted by a bolded, purple headline. The broadcast ends with a brief word, then public discussion is opened up live.

TWiP Inaugural/Pilot
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1259072
 * Stories:
 * Cancellation of Aid. The wholesale cancellation of the Council-Bank Joint Aid Program.
 * Backlash. Coverage of membership opinions on the aid cancellation.
 * Diplomatic Calamity. Revelation that NPO is pushing long-time ally MHA not to join a new bloc, codenamed "Bastion" (not to be confused with the RoK-VE-RIA MDP bloc formed under the same name to irk Vox Populi.

TWiP 2
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=48952
 * Stories:
 * Pacificans on the Ground. "A story of hope and courage" NPO's bi-weekly recruitment contest winners.
 * That's a Mouthful. TWiP takes aim at Francoism architect Vladimir with.
 * Cloak and Dagger. A ICSN spy revealed.
 * Of Queues and Queue-Cutters. Problems within the NPO Tech Corps.