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Irish Judge Stops Drink Drive Trial For Urine Steam Inhalation
When he is urinating, he is inhaling vapourised alcohol and there's always steam off it
The Times-Picayune Is The Toughest Newspaper In The World
IN the pages of The Times-Picayune news is that Chris Rose has been arrested in an alleged domestic violence incident.
The story is penned by Brendan McCarthy, Rose’s colleague on the paper. The story appears on the paper’s website and is open to comments.
Readers may draw parallels with the treatment given out to Kay Burley, the Sky news anchor, when she attended a court eharing for her friend Naomi Campbell.
Posted: 28th, October 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Media, Media Bitch | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
TMZ Pushes Corporate Palin Porn
“I SEE huge opportunities in covering politics in a way that would be interesting and fun for people.
People say you can’t make politicians as interesting as Hollywood celebrities, because they’re not as good-looking, not as well-known, not as entertaining. I totally disagree” -Harvey Levin, Playboy magazine
Says Anorak’s Man in LA:
Remember when shaved bronzed midget Harvey Levin, frontman for the corporate porn-pushing gossip site TMZ.com and its inconsequential whitewashed syndicated television sister was dishing about expanding his sewage site’s scope to include Washington D.C. and politics?
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Media, Media Bitch, Sarah Palin | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Brown Declares Jihad On Bankers
“BLOODBATH OF THE BANKERS,” screams the Mirror’s front-page screamer.
Gordon Brown is “determined heads must roll”.
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Media, Media Bitch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Log: Facing The Rap With Classic Jon Gaunt
ANDREW Vactor is facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo.
Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott offers to reduce the fine to $35 if Vactor spends 20 hours listening to classical music.
Vactor agrees. He lasts15 minutes.
Over in the Sun, Jon Gaunty Gaunt ogles “forces favourite” Katherine Jenkins:
Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Media, Media Bitch, Police Log, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Blog Weekly: China’s New Media
A NEW Media revolution in China. Well, no. But there’s a state-controlled mag:
Mention “participatory media,” and what comes to mind are blog conventions, crowd-sourced op-ed columns, Twitter feeds from disaster zones, and citizen journalists typing out eyewitness accounts of local, breaking situations. A slick, full-color magazine sponsored by a state media group does not.
Enter Blog Weekly (博客天下), a new biweekly magazine that uses China’s army of bloggers to report on current events.
Freedom of speech..?
Posted: 9th, October 2008 | In: Media, Media Bitch, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lily Cole Tries To Contact Gary Glitter
THE Daily Mail is wondering how it can republish that shot of Lily Cole dressed as schoolgirl and give readers another chance to cut it out and keep it as a sign of the sick times in which we live.
Allison Pearson steps into the breach:
The 20-year-old - who with her lanky frame and stunnedcod face looks like a mermaid put through a mangle - agreed to be photographed in pigtails, long white schoolgirl socks and with a pink teddy parked up her Henri Matisse. Factor in the translucent skin and cute snub nose, and Lily looks at least 12.
At leasts. Maybe, 19, or 20…
Posted: 8th, October 2008 | In: Media, Media Bitch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Journalism Is Dead In Melbourne
VIA Tim Blair, news from Melbourne:
Journalism skills are hardly rocket science and can be acquired with experience and a little training,” writes Antony Loewenstein in Melbourne’s Age. Being deficient in both areas, the paper spells his name as “Lowenstein”.
Beyond parody…
Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Tabloids, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BBC’s Undercover Soldier Offers No Right To Reply
JUDITH Towend on how the BBC’s undercover soldier stuffed up and offers no right to reply:
It’s a story that has seen a hive of online activity: the BBC puts a new reporter in the army for six months (he’s never worked in the media before); puts out a documentary, based on mainly anecdotal evidence; the army suspends five people (not clear how many were a result, if any, of the investigation); the mainstream media reports on the whole thing (Telegraph report linked here, as an example).
A Facebook group has been created criticising the reporter for the programme - suggesting he should be tried for treason - which at the time of writing has 1,460 members.
Yet nowhere on the BBC website is there anywhere to post a comment.
Russell Sharp, are you there..?
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Twitterings, War On Terror | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
