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: September 27, 2008
I don’t mean to belittle the Chinese space programme, by the way. The BBC are reporting the historic first spacewalk by a chinese taikonaut. Well, let’s hope they watch out for all the space junk in orbit around the earth. (The graphic above, from NASA, is a visualisation of the debris in low earth [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 17, 2008
Further to our discussion of horror games, you may be interested the read the following story (link after quote):
The Advertising Standards Authority received nine complaints that the TV ads were distressing, condoned violence and were offensive.
Sega Europe said that Condemned 2 was a horror game targeted at "mature consumers" with an over-18 rating from the [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 5, 2008
A few quick links to finish off the week.
The Guardian’s Media page reports the latest newspaper ABC figures – and the news is not good for all of the quality dailies: circulation down across the board.
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The Guardian also reports that smart operator Jeremy Clarkson has made a killing through his involvement in a co-production [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 1, 2008
The reportage surrounding the latest meteorological event to threatenAtlantis New Orleans is typical of the media’s deep, deep problems with science stories. Weather systems, as you should know, are at the cutting edge of chaos theory – the mathematics of non-linear systems. You can throw the Biggest Computer In The World at weather prediction and [...]
Posted by: RFM on: July 14, 2008
1. The Guardian publishes its annual list of the most powerful 100 people in the Media. The Googlers are at the top. Steve Jobs is at number 6. Clarkson is at 58. Ant and Dec are at 99. A bizarre mix of names. I am curiously absent, unless there’s a number higher than 1.
2. James [...]
Posted by: RFM on: June 26, 2008
1. From the BBC web site, a ‘think piece’ on our changing media attitudes to child sex abuse by Mark Easton, the BBC’s ‘home’ reporter.
2. Big Media Blogging. What do you think? The BBC has a lot of blogs. The Guardian practically invented UK Big Media blogging with their often poisonous Comment is Free (check [...]
