“If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature’s refridgerator - your car” - Anthea Tuner on GMTV
Marks & Spencer Bag A Life Campaign
Workers sacked by Dervla Kirwan (6:30 ITV1) and David Jason (7:45 ITV2)
2009: Anorak’s Diary
Obama rising, Gore sinking, Jamie Oliver exported, Beckham chipping, Ledger returning
Terrorists Target Jews Sugar, Winehouse and Ronson: Blair Outraged
UK Jews on and not on terror list
Your Old Media Light Bulb Is The Same As My Blogged Green Light Bulb
HOW the media works: light bulbs. Richard North investigates:
As it stands – and the numbers vary from hour to hour – there are 28,595 individual media stories posted on Google News covering the Gaza conflict. But how many of them are genuine, individual stories, based on accurate, reliable first-hand information?
That the media indulges in group-think and plagiarises each others’ stories is hardly new, but it is a useful corrective to remind ourselves of how prevalent and blatant this practice really is.
Step away from Gaza for one moment, and look at a completely different issue – one we tackled yesterday, the great light-bulb story. Go to The Daily Mail and you will see a follow-up story by David Derbyshire headlined, “The low-energy bulbs that won’t fit your light sockets”. It is datelined 11:03 PM on 07th January 2009.
Go on:
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Dead People For Alernative Fuel And Killing Your Third Born For Air Miles
IN Sweden: “Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities.” The green shirts will like that one.
But why wait for the human to die?
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
When Pink Attacks: Colour Pink Is Killing Girls
THE BBC looks at the colour pink and the girls who crave it like a junkie craves crack cocaine, and wonders:
Ask a little girl what her favourite colour is, and chances are she’ll shout “pink”. Toy aisles and clothing rails are packed with this shade, but is nothing but pink for girls harmful?
Warning: Asking girl what colour she likes may see you branded a paedo. Take care. If you must ask, do so when the child is in the company of her parents or guardians, a member of the emrgency services and in broad daylight, in an amusement arcade, say, or on a beach.
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
When Pink Attacks: Colour Pink Is Killing Girls
THE BBC looks at the colour pink and the girls who crave it like a junkie craves crack cocaine, and wonders:
Ask a little girl what her favourite colour is, and chances are she’ll shout “pink”. Toy aisles and clothing rails are packed with this shade, but is nothing but pink for girls harmful?
Warning: Asking girl what colour she likes may see you branded a paedo. Take care. If you must ask, do so when the child is in the company of her parents or guardians, a member of the emrgency services and in broad daylight, in an amusement arcade, say, or on a beach.
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Magical Mystery Shoe Tree Of Bucks
COME see the branches of a tree on the busy A40 adorned with tens of shoes, many in pairs, right and left hanging from their tied laces.
There are smart brogues, trendy trainers and boots in brown, which should never be brown in town.
The Bush Tree, as it has come to be known, lies between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire.
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Murdoch Dynasty On The Clinton And Kennedy Dynasties
CAROLINE Kennedy fancies a go at being a politico. Hey, it must be her turn by now. And the Wall Street Journal talks of all things dynastic:
So to recap all of this change you can believe in: A Kennedy and Cuomo are competing to succeed a Clinton in New York; the skids are greased for a Biden to replace a Biden in Delaware; one Salazar might replace another in Colorado; and a Governor charged with political corruption in Illinois wants one of his cronies to succeed the President-elect. Let’s just say we’re looking forward to 2009.
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scare Stories: Third Hand Smoke And Licking Smokers Kills
DID you know that “poisons in cigarette smoke can linger on fabrics or hair”?
The BBC says “a survey of 1,500 households found that fewer than half of smokers knew this”.
How many non-smokers knew it is unsaid, and we await the result of further surveys. And finding non-smokers will not be easy, because they have been inhaling smokers for years.
Posted: 7th, January 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scare Stories: Third Hand Smoke And Licking Smokers Kills
DID you know that “poisons in cigarette smoke can linger on fabrics or hair”?
The BBC says “a survey of 1,500 households found that fewer than half of smokers knew this”.
How many non-smokers knew it is unsaid, and we await the result of further surveys. And finding non-smokers will not be easy, because they have been inhaling smokers for years.
Posted: 7th, January 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
