Category Archives: Media

Bye Facebook

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Jon

I was spending too much time on Facebook and I was starting to worry about just what sort of place it really is. So I deleted everything and deactivated my account. You may not know this, but you can’t really … Continue reading →

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More car news

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jon

I just found out that a band I really like, The Books, wrote the music in a TV advertisement for a car I quite dislike, the Hummer H3. In the advert a nasty, anti-social SUV (capable of driving just over 4 miles on a litre … Continue reading →

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More Showbiz News

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Jon

Craig Stephens look-alike Mark Speight, presenter of kids art show sMarT, has been arrested and released on bail after his girlfriend was found dead in the bath of their North London home. Mark had just finished a successful run in Cinderella at the Watersmeet in … Continue reading →

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Hooray for Rolling News

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Jon

The heavily trailed report to Congress by Gen David Petraeus about how well the ‘surge’ is going was given a special 2.5 hour programme on the World Service. This is what happened when the General got up to speak. WS … Continue reading →

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Al-Land Rover

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Jon

I just got a letter from Land-Rover: Dear Mr Ward, In view of recent events in the news, I’m writing to apologise in case you received a mailing about Range Rover Sport that could have caused concern. It was a … Continue reading →

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Reporting Alan Johnston

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Jon

Lots of people think that BBC News is biased in one way or another. It isn’t. People who don’t work for the BBC simply cannot imagine the trouble and wrangling and arguments that go into making sure that the output … Continue reading →

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The Mark of Cain

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Jon

The Mark of Cain is a film made by Channel Four about a group of young British soldiers in Iraq. In it “Iraqi detainees are mistreated at the hands of the soldiers; de-sensitised by violence and encouraged by their mates.” According to the … Continue reading →

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Alan Johnston

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Jon

“Whispering” Alan Johnston has gone missing in Gaza, he may have been kidnapped. He’s the BBC correspondent there but before that he was an editor on a World Service News programme, the World Today. When I was working as a … Continue reading →

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Chicken RUN!

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Jon

So this is the blogosphere’s big chance. Big media has been muzzled by the courts and only the free press, the plucky political bloggers, are free to tell us the whole story. (I’m talking about the Cash for Honours story, … Continue reading →

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Homes and Gardens

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Jon

The Iranian government is baiting the Israelies again. First it was a competition for cartoons about the holocaust, now they’re running a conference to discuss whether the holocaust actually happened at all. They are trying to demonstrate that the West … Continue reading →

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