Posted by: RFM on: September 25, 2009
Big Day for the copyfight. Mandelson is going to try to win his David Geffen’s argument today at the BRIT school.
Apart from the profoundly undemocratic nature of Mandelson’s policy-making (reminder: nobody voted for him; nobody voted for Geffen; and his new policy goes against the government’s own published guidelines in the recent Digital Britain report), [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 24, 2009
Via boingnoing, Cory Doctorow’s considered response to the pickle Lily Allen has got herself in with the copyfighters, when she posted an online rant about piracy. Snip:
Allen just hasn’t thought this through. Copyright is problematic for everyone: musicians, fans, bloggers. The absence of clear affirmative rights to make personal copies, to share with your friends, [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 15, 2009
You may recall that during the summer Peter Mandelson, an unelected politician (he was appointed to the House of Lords and parachuted into government without the need for pesky democracy) sat down for lunch with David Geffen, a multi-millionaire entertainment industry mogul.
The result, after a few jeroboams of champagne and a waffer thin mint was [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 9, 2009
We've seen a pretty relentless onslaught from the press over the summer, culminating in James Murdoch's MacTaggart Lecture. The most important thing to say about that lecture and about many of the recent attacks on the BBC is that they are desperately out of touch with what the audience themselves are telling us.”
via BBC’s Mark [...]
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: September 5, 2009
Via The Guardian, we learn the results of an ICM opinion poll conducted after James Murdoch lambasted the BBC at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Not surprisingly, support for the BBC remains strong, though people are more ambivalent about the licence fee.
Most people also question the continued need for the licence fee – although support for [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 4, 2009
Those of you who think I am strangely obsessed with fonts are always sceptical when I claim that lots of other people share my obsession. Well, the IKEA adopts Verdana story has now appeared in Time magazine, and I’ll have you know that I have nothing to do with it.
The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: RFM on: April 22, 2009
Even if you’ve read Flat Earth News, this is a shocking story. Nick Davies, the journalist who exposed the poor state of journalistic standards and the bullying tactics of certain newspapers (*cough*Daily Mail*cough*) in the aforementioned book, was testifying to MPs in Parliament yesterday. One of the things he said was that “a certain newspaper” [...]
Posted by: RFM on: April 2, 2009
Gareth McLean, writing in (on?) The Guardian’s TV blog asks whether TV drama is too metropolitan and middle class?. Snip:
In farming out drama money to the nations and regions, is the BBC, under misguided pressure from Ofcom, doing anything more than ticking boxes to fulfil regional quotas?
Just as the BBC is (or at least appears [...]
