Posted by: RFM on: June 29, 2009
The next day he was still dead, but somehow deader than the day before. He was all over the radio and papers. The TV had clips of Thriller on heavy rotation, which seemed a tad inappropriate, what with him playing a decomposing corpse in it. If Bruce Willis died falling from a skyscraper, I doubt [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 14, 2008
Further to our ongoing discussion about the lack of checking and institutional inaccuracy in modern journalism, The Guardian science section has a salutary tale.
The Sun gets a story wrong by doing a quick Google search and copy-pasting the wrong results. It gets copied by the Daily Mail and Telegraph, among others.
Nobody checked the facts. [...]
Posted by: RFM on: June 25, 2008
1. Redesigned full-colour Sunday Times will launch this weekend.
2. BBC disses ITV.
3. Gaydar Radio (does this really exist?) is annoyed by yesterday’s story (see below) about the Heinz ad, and is calling for a boycott of Heinz. Which of Heinz’s 57 varieties could you not live without? Do consumer boycotts work?
4. From the Telegraph: apparently, [...]
Posted by: RFM on: June 24, 2008
1. Valerie Singleton scotches rumours about her sexuality (a story helpfully filed by The Guardian under Media:Television; Gay Rights; Gender; Life and Style:Celebrity.
2. (Possibly related?) Advertisement featuring men kissing gets pulled after 200 complaints.
3. Suicide of a journalist who appeared to know too much about murder victims (movie plot alert).
4. (For the visual learners) [...]
