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 | Comments (2) | 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 | Comments (20) | 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 | Comments (3) | 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 (1) | 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 | Comments (3) | 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 (1) | 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 | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Imagining A Black President And More With Sandra Cichon
LAZY journalists fake anti-Obama racism quotes:
A quote attributed to Sandra Cichon, a private citizen, is spreading across the internet as a living example of White Racism. Did a reporter put words in this woman’s mouth?
An article in the St. Petersberg Times, quotes Cichon as having said, “I can’t imagine having a black president . . .”
In a phone interview Saturday, Sandra Cichon of Spring Hill, Florida denied that she ever spoke with any pollster or reporter concerning Obama or about anything regarding race. Cichon was taken by surprise when phoned by this reporter, and she was not aware that she had been quoted in any newspaper.
As he says:
Cichon learned about her fictitious conversation with the pollster when she read about it in the paper, which had interviewed her for an earlier story, and apparently has been using her name for quotations of their own invention to add authenticity to their pro-Obama propaganda.
Making up a quote is lazy, but why use a real person’s name? And why invent racism..?
Barack Obama As Curious George
How To Stop ‘Muslim Fundamentalist’ Barack Obama
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Barack Obama, Media Bitch, Politicians, Race For The White House, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How China Censors Tianamen Square On Google
IF you look up “Tianamen Square” on google in China you get the following images.
Compare them to what you get if you do the same search in the US…
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Photojournalism, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How The Media Accepts Parpody As Fact
A FEW months back, Anorak receied a call from Tiger Aspect, a TV production company.
The excited researcher wanted to know the contact details of Barry Richards, 16, a pupil at the Wat Tyler comprehensive in Grays, and a leading member of the Essex Young Conservatives. You can read about him here.
Now Anorak’s freind in the US, 14, writes from the US about how one of her satirical works - the Urban Satchel - has been accepted as true by the mainstream press.
Much to my delight, an alert reader has informed me that the NY Edition of The Metro has used my Urban Satchel in a fluff article about women’s handbags.
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Beyond Parody, Media Bitch, Photojournalism | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Katherine Bucknell On The Lehman Brothers’ African Pump
WRITES the Times: “After Lehman Brothers: desperate City wives“:
The real-life stresses and strains of being married to an investment banker forms the backdrop to Katherine Bucknell’s bestselling US novel Canarino; Here she explains what the repercussions are for the families caught up in the latest financial meltdown…
At last, someone to make sense of it all…
For every vanished pile there will be crying children, an angry spouse, unemployed builders and domestic help, goods left on shop shelves, flats and houses available to rent or buy, empty restaurants, and villages in Africa that don’t get their new water pump after all.
Unravelling Allison Pearson’s Message For Lehman Brothers Sorority
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Media Bitch, Money | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Greatest Non-Sequitur Of The Decade
HEADLINES like “WE‘RE ALL F***ED” (all papers) might have led readers to believe that the world’s economy was in freefall and we were all doomed to rearing turnips as a source of fuel, housing and good, clean, honest fun.
Now the Times says we’ve been to “Hell and back”. The Express leads with “SHARE BOOM SENSATION”. “The panic is over…possibly,” says the Independent. And the Sun commands readers to “FILL YOUR BOOTS”.
We’ve never had it so good.
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
And that goes for Gordon Brown, too, who is the recipient of the Guardian’s non-sequitur of the decade: “After the crash, a record bounce – and Brown fightback begins.”
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Media Bitch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Skatey Kate Middleton Makes Jan Moir Eat Her Teddy
PRINCE William’s lover, the leggy Kate Middleclass, is, like her man, playing at dress ups. Yesterday, Kate was in the papers dressed as a roller (S)Kate-r.
She was “Disco Queen Kate” (Express); “ECHOES OF PRINCESS DI” (Sun); “ROLLER SKATING” (Sun). And the Mail heralded her on its front page as “Skatey Katy”, looking on as she heading to her roller disco in “sober black boots”.
One day on and Kate Middleton is still in her green spandex top, yellow short shorts and roller skates. Has she been home yet?
She’s on the ground. “KATE IN A STATE,” says the Sun. It’s “Skating Kate’s tumble,” says the Express. And the Mail asks: “Is this a portrait of the future Queen of England?”
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Kate Middleton, Media Bitch, Prince William, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Laughing At The Unemployed City Boy Terrorists
THE Mirror is celebrating the loss of so many jobs in the City. Thousands – secretaries, traders, money makers, revenue, caterers, wealth generators, bar staff, cleaners and more - are looking at redundancy and the Mirror, voice of the worker, is delighted:
But I’m still laughing so hard at the sight of those City Boys departing Avarice Towers with their possessions in champagne boxes, that my face is redder than a glistening new Ferrari.
Or redder than an unpaid utility bill. Happily he then wishes death upon them.
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Drivel Nor Porn Drives The New Web
AS Charlie Wheelan writes: “According to Broadstuff searches for porn online are declining as people take to social networking. Alan Patrick is sceptical”:
“I’d argue that the pornification of our culture over the last 10 years, and the sort of stuff some people are putting up on their SocNet pages makes it largely unnecessary to hunt down peek-a-boo pornsites”
As he says, maybe people are just making their own porn - or are tired of it…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Twitterings | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
No-One Reads The Daily Express
“YOUNG readers lose out,” says the Daily Express.
Children spend less time reading than their parents. Fact, says Charity Booktime and Booked Up. Maybe children should read the Daily Express? But they don’t No-one does:
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Tabloids, Terrible TV | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polly Tonybee Wants Gordon Brown To Be As Consistent As She Is
POLLY Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and president of the Social Policy Association. She is a solid and clear voice, an opinion former:
“A cabinet of minnows and spineless backbenchers include many - perhaps most - who want Brown gone, but lack the nerve to act. They wait for someone else, for Brown to walk away or for a proverbial bus to save them from the task” – Polly Tonybee, Sep 6, 2008
Not to be confused with this Polly Tonybee:
“…as they stepped into No 10 yesterday, here was as decent and clever a team of ministers as ever graced the cabinet table. Two Milibands, Ed Balls, Jackie Smith, Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson, Douglas Alexander, Peter Hain and Hilary Benn - with the likes of John Denham and Yvette Cooper in attendance - present a good front. It’s certainly the most genuinely united government in living memory” – Polly Tonybee, June 29 2007
Consistency is what we’re after…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Media Bitch, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Unravelling Allison Pearson’s Message For Lehman Brothers Sorority
ALLISON Pearson, of the Daily Mail, is discussing the impact of the Lehman Bothers “earthquake” and what investments bankers did to us when they never had it so good:
For years, investment bankers could outbid any family on a London house because they were always cash buyers. Flash Harrys and Jaspers with bonuses as big as their egos were happy to pay stupid money. So the property market duly went insane…
Who can afford those cray-zee prices?
Film studio Miramax has demanded that Allison Pearson return the $700,000 it paid her for rights to her novel I Think I Love You after the Daily Mail columnist failed to deliver the book. The novel, Pearson’s second following her successful debut I Don’t Know How She Does It, is about one girl’s infatuation with David Cassidy.
Pearson goes on:
The quality of British life became dangerously frayed. Kids unravelled.
Unravelling children. For shame! You’ve seen them, with their frayed fingers, unstitched heads and loose bits of digestive tract trailing behind them on a sodden grey pavement.
Pearson’s seen them. And she’s seen the kiddie unravellers at Lehman Brothers, once addressing the banks sorority:
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Suicidal Thoughts With The Daily Sport
ANYONE know what percentage of suicides read the Daily Sport? And for another study, does reading the Daily Sport encourage feelings of suicide or are you already suicidal when you buy it?
And for a few pence more, why not just buy the Daily Mail and learn that things can be much worse and usually are.
Much to debate, then, in light of the Press Complaints Commission’s decision to censure the Daily Sport for a “gratuitous article that glamorised suicide” after the tabloid published a “Top yourself tourism” list.
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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