Category: media

A very interesting piece by Tim Ireland on how Rebekah Wade has been changing Page 3 into an extension of “The Sun Says”. Apparently she thinks that Sun readers are more likely to lap up blatent propoganda if it is recast as the opinions of women with no top on. Unfortunately she’s probably right.

More proof (if any was needed) that reality tv contestants aren’t exactly the brightest of people. “Shell” Jubin was touted as one of the cleverest people on this year’s UK Big Brother. During the course of the programme she got a first class degree in some fluffy subject. But it seems that she’s not too… Continue reading Not The Brightest…

Note to broadcasters… Most sports commentators are barely literate. They are (usually) able to commentate on their own sports without too much difficulty, but if you give them something more complex than that (like, for example, the opening cermony of the Olympic games) then they will have no idea what they are talking about and… Continue reading Sports Commentators

Official I think that the episode in question is probably Smashed.

She died :(

Last night I watched the first episode of a new Channel 4 series about Pagans. Whilst it was dumbed down in the way that all documentaries seem to be these days (for example, the first episode went for the biggest possible audience by covering sex) it was all very interesting. What comes out of it… Continue reading Pagans

Interesting piece by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian today. It discusses how The Sun was very quick to condemn the BNP as racists last week (following the BBC documentary) although much its editorial is thinly diguised racism. The Media Guardian site requires registration – which gives me a good excuse to plug Bug Me Not.

You will all be familiar with the Odeon chain of cinemas. You probably know that they have a web site. If you happen to be running the right version of the right browser on the right operating system you may even be able to visit their web site and get useful information out of it.… Continue reading Accessible Odeon

I recently discovered Box Office Mojo which is a site that has box office figures from US cinemas (it has worldwide figures too, but that’s not the main focus of the site). I’ve been using it to track the success of Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s already the biggest grossing documentary of all time. It’s take three… Continue reading Box Office Mojo

I work too close to Forbidden Planet (and even closer to Gosh! Comics). I’ve started spending one lunchtime a week browsing in comic shops and buying stuff. I’ve been buying the Essential X-Men books. These are reprints of X-Men comics that I was reading in the late 70s and early 80s. It’s been a lot… Continue reading X-Men