Category: Media
So farewell then, NotW
July 10th, 2011, No Comments
When people make Downfall videos of you, you know you’re doomed.
Rats having been left by a sinking ship.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie had Murdoch’s number years ago…
Won’t somebody please think about the Egyptian cats?
February 15th, 2011, 2 Comments
What The Times thinks is important about the Egyptian revolution:
While the world has focused on the many troubles faced by humans during the 18-day uprising, the four-legged residents of Cairo have been left to fend for themselves. Many Egyptians, expats, and tourists have been forced by authorities to flee the country without their pets; zoos [...]
Obama — Egypt’s secret saviour
February 14th, 2011, No Comments
Bah humbug:
Now to anyone paying the slightest attention, “Our President” notably and loudly vacillated and hedged through the first two weeks of Egyptian protests, for which he was routinely criticized by everyone from the softy liberals with the first hint of a hard-on in years at the Egyptians’ spirit of 68 right through Glenn Beck [...]
Egypt: the rhythm of revolution
February 8th, 2011, 1 Comment
Alex dissects the day to day rhythm of the Egyptian protests and what the likely outcomes of it might be:
The result of this is that there’s been a sort of media cycle – one day the papers are full of pictures from the latest day of rage, the next it’s all about people grandly speculating [...]
The Fall of the House of Murdoch
January 31st, 2011, No Comments
Alex looks at the trouble in the Murdoch empire:
There’s a genuinely weird feeling to this. Obviously there’s some sort of political re-alignment going on, but it’s impossible to say what it is or how far it will go. It all seems to be dependent on things like the story about the journalist who started taping [...]
Your Happening World (18)
October 12th, 2010, No Comments
Nadine Dorrie, vicious cow. Should a member of parliament really spent her time harassing a disabled woman for being active on Twitter?
Andrew Marr, silly ass. “BBC presenter tells Cheltenham Literary Festival that citizen journalists will never replace real news” — perhaps not, but sycophantic power worshipers like yourself should worry. How much do we [...]
Context dammit!
July 25th, 2010, No Comments
It’s nice that the Nation gets outraged about Obama approving cooperation between the US military and one of the more infamous Indonesian murder squads:
Yesterday’s announcement by the Obama administration that it is resuming military ties with the mass-murdering war criminals of Indonesia’s special forces ought to give us pause. Because the new relationship with Kopassus, [...]
What drives me nuts about BBC science reporting
June 21st, 2010, No Comments
Is neatly captured in the above Dilbert strip. Any report about some new research finding out cheese causes cancer in middle aged women e.g. never quantifies the risk enough to know how serious you should take it, nor puts it into context. If there’s a “significant increase” in getting cancer from eating cheese, what does [...]
How the media can help prevent another Cumbria
June 4th, 2010, No Comments
But probably won’t. From Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. To ask why he did it is to ask the wrong question; learning his reasons, if any, won’t stop somebody else from deciding they need to go start shooting people; his motivations won’t be theirs. Far better than to endlessly speculate this way, the media needs to follow [...]
Wakefield: goat milk as measles vaccine
June 2nd, 2010, No Comments
A week or so ago I posted about Andrew “MMR is bad okay” Wakefield being struck off the medical register and mentioned in passing that he himself had patented a single measles vaccine, to se in place of the MMR vaccine that was supposed to be causing autism in children. He therefore wasn’t just doing [...]
