Billy Brag’s ‘It says here’ came on my iPod other day and as I listened to it, despite the song being from the early eighties, it was striking how little had changed in the world that the song talks about “where politics mix with bingo and tits, In a strictly money and numbers game”. Read More
Time magazine is pulling no punches with its unsettling cover of a 26-year old mother, Jamie Lynne Grumet, breastfeeding her almost four year old son this week.
While the story itself no doubt has its merits the cover feels like an exercise in exploitation and salaciousness that crosses ethical boundaries with its use of a child. Read More
On the day after Rupert Murdoch was declared “not fit” to have “stewardship of a major international company”, and he sent an email to staff, in which he said the report by the parliamentary committee “affords us a unique opportunity to reflect upon the mistakes we have made” , the Sun is under fire for attacking new England manager Roy Hodgson on its front page. Hodgson was named England manager yesterday.
The paper pokes fun at Hodgson’s speech impediment and seems to be a particularly shoddy way for the paper, and the company at large, to reflect on its past misfortunes and will endear it to few. Read More
Are you gripped by Homeland? Stupid question. The final episode appears next week with a second season on the way.
The show has two British star. Damian Lewis’ Brody and David Harewood who stars as David Estes who is Carrie’s boss at the Counterterrorism Center of the Central Intelligence Agency. Read More
This video from Sky News Australia is jaw dropping as with Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten is asked for his view on an issue relating to sexual harassment in the Australian parliament.
Shorten’s conduct during the interview is something straight out of the ‘The Thick of it’.
Shorten speaks as he is reading from a script that says ” say nothing, just agree with the Prime Minister”.
Elections can do strange things to people. Take Lewis Jolly, a 19-year old chef, from London who has had Boris Johnson’s face tattooed on his leg.
Is that not the most kind of bizarre political advertising/self harm?
It begs just one question really, why oh why? Read More
This is nice. A spoken poem, ‘Print is not dying’ produced by Ink and written and directed by David Bowden from The Garden Studios.
It takes you on a journey to underline the idea that “print has always been our faithful companion”.
A long piece in the New Yorker looking at the Daily Mail and its rise to become Britain’s most powerful newspaper that is well worth a read.
With a daily readership of four and a half million the Mail reaches four times as many people as the Guardian and although outsold by the Sun is taken more seriously. Its closest analogue in the American media is perhaps Fox News:
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Posters for the fifth season of ‘Mad Men’, showing a “falling man”, have sparked controversy in the US due to similarities to one of the most famous images from 9/11 of a man shown jumping to his death from the Twin Towers.
The sister of one victim, who piloted the jet that crashed into the Pentagon, has called the AMC posters “cruel and tasteless”. Read More
Banksy, the British graffiti artist, film director and painter, has published some comments giving his take on advertising. You get the impression he is not a fan.
His line is that advertisers are laughing at us and intruding in our lives while at the same time forbidding the public from touching their copyrighted images. He has a point. Read More
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