From the category archives:

Media

Shaking Down the Priorities

February 27, 2010

Priorities are everything in the newsroom, the Editor will push to the front the story that is most read on-line.
Which for News International readers are – in order of priority:
Wayne Bridge refusal to shake John Terry’s hand at Chelsea this afternoon.
52 people dead in Chile after the earth shook.
Model Shayks’ long legs in full display.
I [...]

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In the Beginning…

February 26, 2010

Today, an exhibition opens in London of an event, a life changing event, that transformed lives far more effectively than anything the Nu-Labour activists could dream of. It was a genuine revolution, a relatively bloodless one.
Today, Carnaby Street is 50 years old. That is not quite true, Carnaby Street was around in Dicken’s time, a [...]

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The Barnet Formula revised.

February 24, 2010

Grahame Park in Barnet is one of the largest council estate ever built by the old GLC.  Some 1,777 homes sit cheek by jowl, or rather drug addled resident by asylum seeker resident, for although the estate was popular when it was originally built, it has been plagued by problems, and it now requires ‘regeneration [...]

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The Media’s Role in Cultural Decline

February 24, 2010

The media can no longer divorce itself from the process of cultural decline. There are numerous factors involved in turning a culture to dust. All of them are slow, subtle and thus easy to deny.
For years, our media set – newspaper, telly, radio, advertising, websites and PR – have denied they have any [...]

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Robert Green

February 17, 2010

A frisson of excitement ran through the blogosphere late last night as news of Robert Green’s arrest in Aberdeen spread.
The facts as they first appeared seemed electrifying, a legal advisor prevented from going about his business by a Scottish legal conspiracy? Grist to the blogosphere mill.
A little digging reveals more froth on this than a [...]

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Words fail me.

February 14, 2010

Tip of the Raccoon Tail to GOT

Wikio

Wikio

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Mercy Killing?

February 1, 2010

The past week has seen one mother, Frances Inglis, jailed for life for murdering a son who was in a persistent vegetative state, and another mother, Kay Gilderdale, acquitted of the attempted murder of her daughter, whose suicide she assisted.
The BBC has seen fit to mark these sad events by a ‘poll‘ – ‘vote now [...]

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