Media

We love the BBC

August 31, 2010
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This for Sam Norton. Yes, it has its faults, and I have a good go at it from time to time. But it needs cherishing for so many good things, and above all defending against the pillaging hordes of Murdoch the Barbarian.

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A little gift for the conspiracy theorists

August 19, 2010

MItchell and Webb address the conspiracy theorist nutters with this moon landing sketch. Now here’s hoping they’ll feature nutty Norman Baker and the Kelly conspiracists.

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Bias or carelessness?

August 17, 2010

I am getting more and more irritated with the universality of sloppy journalism. Yesterday, as part of a media-wide curmudgeonly and petty denigration of Tony Blair’s £4m plus donation to charity, the BBC gave prominence to an anti-war campaigner: Peter Brierley, whose son Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley was killed in Iraq, called the gift “blood [...]

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iPad it out – but it’s total iPee

August 15, 2010

We are still largely in the position of trusting others for news of what is going on in the world and help in understanding it. That’s why, I suggest, it matters that so many journalists seem to want to make stories out of press releases: churnalism as it is often referred to. The problem is [...]

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Inception: a post-modernist’s wet dream

July 18, 2010
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Go and see Inception , and two and a half hours will pass really quickly. I’ve just come back, and part of my brain feels as if it will need several showings to decide whether the film is solid or ephemeral, a lasting well-buttressed cathedral of the imagination or an impossible Escherian trompe l’oeil. It [...]

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Ruth Gledhill is getting pretty desperate

June 12, 2010

is this how they are going to differentiate between the version of the Times you have to pay for and the one you can still link to for free? Ruth Gledhill has an extraordinarily garbled report of old news today, and it’s free at the point of delivery. Then again if you paid for it [...]

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Orange Digital Campaigning Awards (NOT) #orangedigitalawards (SORT OF)

May 31, 2010

I was tagged by the Church Mouse with Matt Wardman’s new meme-type gentle protest against the somewhat arbitrary process of the Orange Digital Campaign Awards. Matt is after some more grassroots ideas of good campaigns during the elections. Somewhat ironically this doesn’t (as I chased a number of the tagged people down) this doesn’t seem [...]

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NME: not exactly first for Hollywood news

May 29, 2010
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Big oops! (Screenshot taken at 21:50 BST, 29/05/10) The NME may (or may not) be first for music news as it proudly boasts, but it’s got some serious problems – or at least its sub-editor has – when it comes to news from the worlds of screen and stage. That should be Dennis Hopper, guys. [...]

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David Laws and the Telegraph: why now?

May 29, 2010

Because I mentioned David Laws in one of the posts I made during the election – in which it transpired that I was wrong – I have been getting a number of visits from people following searches about him. In the last three weeks in particular I have noticed a number of searches for some [...]

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The tiresome nature of religion in a secular media

May 26, 2010

According to BBC news, the presenter of BBC Radio Four’s Sunday Programme has just excoriated his employers. Religious coverage is seen as a “rather tiresome obligation” by “secular and sceptical” BBC television staff, a Radio 4 broadcaster has said. The rather predictable response of the official BBC is that its “commitment to religion broadcasting was [...]

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