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Pentagon censoring Hollywood – Lassie in the dog house…
From here. “In the 1961 Lassie episode “Timmy and the Martians,” Lassie howls to alert Timmy of a plane crash. In the original episode, once the military has re-assembled the plane they discover that a faulty wing had caused a … Continue reading
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Red Pepper #189 reviewed.
Red Pepper April/May 2013 The tl;dr – Plus ca change (as in, here’s a review of the last one) – a mix of the worthy, the tedious, with flashes of real insight. The big problem with Red Pepper is the … Continue reading
Quotes from “Pravda” about newspapers and politicians
From Pravda by Howard Brenton and David Hare 1985 Methuen Quince [an ambitious and venal backbencher]: The press and politicians. A delicate relationship Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange … Continue reading
Journalism, sex and David Simon – “true dat”
David Simon (“The Wire,” “Treme” etc) has written a very good piece on “War and Piece” (the Petraeus ‘scandal’) Media’s Petraeus Sex Obsession Is Dangerous, Destructive Enough. This is just sex. This is just people. …. Hypocrisy will never go … Continue reading
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Tagged David Simon, hacks, hypocrisy, Petraeus
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Who to feel sorriest for? The hack? The kids? The readers? The mums?
Sometimes you just have to weep for this species. The front page of the Manchester Evening News for Mon 24th September 2012 was taken up with NAKED MEN IN THE POOL RUINED MY 7-YEAR-OLD’S BIRTHDAY PARTY “Mums shield youngsters’ eyes … Continue reading
Journalists? Mostly whores and parasites and sycophants.
Assange is… well, I ain’t gonna add to the verbiage. I never met the guy (though a friend of mine hosted him in London and says… but no, silly game of he said she said). Is he an anti-Semite? If … Continue reading
B for Vendetta
Beckham meets PM over food summit (UKPA) – 34 minutes ago David Beckham has visited Downing Street as David Cameron agreed to host a summit aimed at tackling world hunger. The former England footballer met the Prime Minister at No … Continue reading
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Surfacing Malcolm Gladwell
Philip Agee, the CIA agent/whistleblower. explained in his book (CIA diary) that one of the key propaganda techniques they used was getting stories into “third world” newspapers and then using these as “local” assessments of the International Communist Conspiracy. It … Continue reading
In media res; was it ever thus?
Nevertheless, it is also instructive to take a longer, historical view. This is not the first time such fragmentation has occurred: as Paul Starr, a Princeton professor of sociology notes, in the 19th century the newspaper was arguably as polarised … Continue reading
Social capital and amusement arcades…
Stumbled on a clipping I thought I would never find. A letter to the Guardian on Monday 30th October, 2000 If anyone should want to form a clear picture of just how much British society has been dumbed down in … Continue reading
