Posted by: RFM on: October 16, 2009
It’s been an interesting and controversial week in the media.
On Monday, the Guardian published a mysterious article which said that they were unable to report an MP’s written question to a minister because a legal injunction prevented them from doing so. In other words, a law firm had stopped a British newspaper from even reporting [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 30, 2009
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK – The Guardian.
The milestone marks a watershed for the embattled TV industry, the leading ad medium in the UK for almost half a century. It has taken the internet little more than a decade to become the biggest advertising sector in the UK.
UK advertisers [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 22, 2009
I love this kind of thing. The Guardian’s Lifestyle section has a gallery of photos of convenience and fast foods as portrayed on packaging and in advertising and how they look in real life. It’s important work, and one of the better uses of the internet. I’ve seen all the German food pictures before, but [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 13, 2009
Bree arrives home in a new silver Lexus and all the other Desperate Housewives gather round to admire it. James Bond taps into a terror network using a Sony laptop. In Moonlight, Beth Turner takes a picture of the crime scene with her iPhone…
All of the above are examples of product placement, a form of [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 8, 2009
A complete ban on alcohol advertising would have a “devastating” impact on the ailing TV, newspaper and magazine sectors, resulting in more than £180m-a-year in ad revenue disappearing from company balance sheets, according to forecasts.
via Alcohol advertising ban would ‘devastate’ media industries |
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Posted by: RFM on: August 26, 2009
Microsoft apologises over race-swap gaffe |
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Posted by: RFM on: August 24, 2009
Here are a few stories I’ve been sitting on for a while:
Mountains Out Of Molehills | Information Is Beautiful
Newspaper ABCs. This is an interesting story. Although newspaper circulation figures have been steadily falling anyway, a lot of figures have been artificially inflated by means of the inclusion of “bulks”: giveaway copies you might find on [...]
Posted by: RFM on: April 29, 2009
They either take a long time investigating these things, or they’ve got a really slow calculator.
The interesting thing here is that not a single one of these complaints was upheld by the ASA. One was withdrawn by the company concerned when they heard about the complaint.
Some of the complaints did seem preposterous, but I wonder [...]
