Posted by: RFM on: October 12, 2009
Classy.
“These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly,” said Lagerfeld in an interview with the magazine Focus. The designer, who lost a lot of weight himself when he went on a strict low-carbohydrate diet several years ago, added that the world of [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 5, 2009
Now you see it, now you don’t.
In 2007, a study at the University of Missouri found that a wide variety of women felt noticeably worse about themselves after viewing pictures of models in magazine adverts for just three minutes. Another study in 1999, found that nearly 70% of teenage girls surveyed said their idea of [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 2, 2009
One wouldn’t have thought this would be news. As Miller says, “pretty much every picture in a magazine or ad is airbrushed . . . I don’t think the public understands how much smoke and mirrors are involved in making women look like that.”
Too fat to be a model? The picture that caused a storm [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 26, 2009
Microsoft apologises over race-swap gaffe |
Technology |
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Posted by: RFM on: August 13, 2009
A limp response to women’s erotica | Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden |
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guardian.co.uk
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Posted by: RFM on: August 13, 2009
MODELS.com Feed ยป Keep It Real.
Posted by: RFM on: April 30, 2009
I’m not showing off. I know I’m a D-list public intellectual, but I just think it’s interesting: because not only have the public lost all faith in the media; not only do so many people assume, now, that they are being misled; but more than that, the media themselves have lost all confidence in their [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 10, 2009
Madeleine McCann was treated as a “commodity” by the UK press, her father Gerry has told MPs.
Some reports about the missing girl had been “embellished” or even made up, the culture, media and sport select committee was told.
Papers had, without evidence, published stories suggesting Madeleine was dead, which could have stopped people looking for her, [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 6, 2009
How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it – Boing Boing
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Posted by: RFM on: February 25, 2009
Rupert Murdoch issues personal apology for ‘racist’ chimpanzee cartoon | Media | guardian.co.uk .
Really? Not intended to be racist? What, because there’s no history of black people being compared to monkeys, chimps, etc.?
