Posted by: RFM on: August 29, 2009
Delivering the prestigious MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, James Murdoch (youngest son of Rupert – wonder how he got his job?) has attacked both the BBC and Ofcom, complaining that they’re stifling the media market in the UK.
James Murdoch hits out at BBC and regulators at Edinburgh TV festiva.
The [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 26, 2009
Microsoft apologises over race-swap gaffe |
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Posted by: RFM on: August 24, 2009
Here are a few stories I’ve been sitting on for a while:
Mountains Out Of Molehills | Information Is Beautiful
Newspaper ABCs. This is an interesting story. Although newspaper circulation figures have been steadily falling anyway, a lot of figures have been artificially inflated by means of the inclusion of “bulks”: giveaway copies you might find on [...]
Posted by: RFM on: May 12, 2009
If there’s anything that sums up the social divide in our nation any better than this Daily Telegraph web site front page, I’d love to see it.
Our lead story concerns the former leader of a political party, who used £10,000 of our money to enhance the resale value of his London flat, so he’d make [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 12, 2009
This is a case of one lifestyle value set meeting another. Celebrity chefs in firing line – Guardian. It’s joined-up thinking, innit? You can’t really expect to get away with news stories about chocolate causing diabetes followed by Nigella sticking her fist into a bowlful of creamy melted chocolate and vamping for the camera
Posted by: RFM on: February 25, 2009
Here’s a potentially huge story:
via ITV proposes merger with Channel 4 and Five to create broadcasting giant.
ITV are about to announce really bad results. Channel 4 is struggling. Five is more or less where it was 10 years ago, with a tiny audience share, but the average person only watches Five for an hour and [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 20, 2009
Above is Part 1 of a visual representation of the origina of the credit crunch. Apart from explaining it very well, the money shot (as it were) comes near the end of Part 1 (Part 2 is here), when the people who took out the so-called sub-prime mortgages are represented. And [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 6, 2009
The BBC, as we all know, is a very middle class organisation, often said by conservative politicians and commentators to have liberal/left agenda. That kind of accusation is hard to deny, especially when you recall (former Five Live Presenter) Jane Garvey’s comments about the BBC on the morning after Tony Blair’s victory in the 1997 [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 6, 2009
John Henley in the Guardian writes an interesting history of the golliwog. This is a useful piece for revising the Key Concept of Representation, but also – oddly – relates to the copyright topic, because the figure of the golliwog became so well known precisely because it was reproduced by many different authors and manufacturers [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 4, 2009
There’s a very interesting controversy surrounding the dismissal of Carol Thatcher from The One Show (BBC). Thatcher’s agent thinks that there’s something personal going on:
“This was a private conversation held in private, amongst individuals in the green room after she [Carol Thatcher] had been on The One Show. At the time nobody objected to that [...]
