Category: Media
Hands up who likes Ian Hislop
May 29th, 2010, No Comments
Not Tim Ireland, for understandable reasons: Iain Dale actually tried to take political advantage of my being smeared as a paedophile while simulataneously libelling Tom Watson as a smear merchant. He went on to similarly exploit a man on the brink of suicide and the repeated publication of my home address. He did this primarily [...]
Your daily NYT shovel of steaming bullshit
May 20th, 2010, 1 Comment
The New York Times has always been an active cheerleader for mendacious or false stories about Democratic candidates, usually staying just short of outright lying, if only through allowing third parties to lie for them, followed up by halfassed denounciations. But their smear campaign against senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal crosses that line completely. Their story [...]
MPAA: objectively pro-terrorist
May 15th, 2010, No Comments
The MPAA fights the hardest battle of all against torrenting soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan: One of the questions posed by the MPAA is whether they have banned U.S. troops from going to stores that sell pirated DVDs. The Central Command answered this question negatively, as it would hurt the business of Iraqi salesmen. “No….banning [...]
BBC Political Editors – Making It Up As They Go Along
May 11th, 2010, No Comments
UPDATE: Brown is currently announcing he’s going to see the Queen to resign and to recommend that she ask the leader of the opposition, ie Cameron, to form a government. But still, my post makes some valid points, not least that Nick Robinson should be sacked. It ain’t over till the Queen lady sings… The [...]
Attack of The Twitterati
May 10th, 2010, 2 Comments
What are they putting in Sky News‘ office coffee machine these days, crystal meth? You’d think so, judging by the behaviour of Sky News presenters Adam Boulton and Kay Burley today…. But first a few words of explanation. One of the most highly-trending topics on Twitter during the past day or so has been #don’tdoitnick. [...]
Don’t Talk To Me About Technology
May 5th, 2010, No Comments
Can you believe this shit? Here I am, a politics and news junkie stuck here in a Dutch hospital for the past 5 months and on the night before the UK election. my overpriced crap hospital tv,(3 euro a day, run by a private company called PatientLine) and hence my access to BBC’s 1 and [...]
Poll Fraud 2010 – Let The Vote Rigging Begin!
April 29th, 2010, No Comments
Never mind, Gordon, even when the election looks well and truly lost, there’s always voting fraud… Is this story the reason why we’ve spent the last 24 hrs hearing smears about poor Gillian Duffy from the Labour-leaning media, rather than reports on Labour’s latest attempt to skew the popular vote? Labour’s new media tsar Kerry [...]
Your Happening World (12)
March 29th, 2010, No Comments
A quick look at the more interesting stories found today. Inconcievable! The Press Complaints Commission has actually ruled in favour of a complaint — and against Rod Liddle’s goat curry rant. The rant in question: “The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried [...]
Reasoned argument considered harmful
March 18th, 2010, No Comments
John Emerson says: People used to say that the media weren’t really right wing, but were just sucking up to Bush because they worship power and success. But if that were true, we should be seeing them sucking up to Obama and the Democrats now. They aren’t. Instead, what we’re seeing on TV these days [...]
How newspapers die
October 22nd, 2009, No Comments
I don’t like blogging triumphalism or gloating about the death of the “print dinosaurs”, but it is true that a large part of the difficulties many newspapers find themselves in is due to their own actions. Or, in other words, who would want to pay to read George Will when you can have your intelligence [...]
