Posted by: RFM on: October 17, 2009
You may have developed some awareness of the latest pitchfork-wielding Twitter flashmob. A homophobic column in the Daily Mail by Jan Moir has been greeted with upset and outrage all around. I won’t dignify her article with a link. After all, homophobia (and sexist double standards) are par for the course for the Daily Mail, [...]
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: October 8, 2009
Interesting article in the Guardian about Google News and how difficult it is for Google to link to news, apropos of our discussion on how Google works the other day (that link takes you to an explanation from the Google Guide).
But one returns to that problem about news sites: the rules of journalistic production are [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 4, 2009
Guardian Media Group is losing around £100,000 per day, according to this article on the Wired UK web site.
They’re coming perilously close to redundancies. A lot of other newspapers have far fewer permanent, full-time staff — but they employ a lot more casual staff (freelancers), who are on shorter contracts and not entitled to the [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 26, 2009
It’s the new benchmark for unwatchable TV, and – as Brooker points out – it counts as a NEWS programme (produced by Sky News, natch) for Five.
In short: this is quite a stupid programme. It's hosted by Messenger, Ian Wright and Kate “The Apprentice” Walsh. Inoffensive in isolation, once combined they demonstrate the sort of [...]
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 14, 2009
Mark Thompson: ‘People want the BBC to step backwards’ |
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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 [...]
