Posts Tagged ‘newspapers’
Andy Murray wins Wimbledon: the newspaper front and back pages
DID you see Andy Murray win Wimbledon? Did you watch it all? Or are you one of the many who saw bits of it, popping in an out of the kitchen and garden to see parts of the tennis player’s momentous win? Tennis remains a minority sport. It’s not the football. But today it’s bigger. For those of you who love reading about football in the newspapers – or for that matter, politics, weather, celebs, wars etc. – you’ll having to find it amid reams and rams of Murray Mania:
The Times has a wraparound cover. It’s a photograph of joy to kickstart the working week.
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The Top 10 newspaper apologies of 2012
THE Top Ten Newspaper corrections of 2012:
The New York Times:
An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.
C.W. Nevius’ column about Most Holy Redeemer banning drag queen performers incorrectly stated that entertainer Peaches Christ appeared at an event at the church’s hall with a dildo shaped like a crucifix. He did not appear at the event, nor does he use the prop.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Hammy frog sacrifices life to save Australian family
WHEN a frog dies, Australia reacts. Belinda Brustolin and her family had a lucky escape. A lightning bolt hit an electricity pole a few yards from their their home in Girraween. The power went out. She tells the Northern Territory News:
‘It was like nature’s version of Territory Day. There was a thunder clap, a bright flash and then the power went out. It was a good storm.“
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The EcoBrolly makes free newspapers useful
NEWSPAPERS will not die. They will be turned into umbrellas. The EcoBrolly is the work of Shiu Yuk Yuen. The device looks not unlike a music stand. But, still, if it makes us use newspapers, all to the good…
Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The best and worst juxtaposed newspaper headlines ever
THE best / worst juxtaposed images of the day might not be all accidental. Who would want to be the poor sod with the camera on the front page of The Sunshine Cost Daily’s front-page warning over paedophiles? Is Santa Claus a “child porn kingpin”, as The Times of South Africa seems to be saying? Is the Journal Sentinel having at the late Ted Kennedy? Let’s take a look..? Those infamous Costa Concordia pages are here.
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The Most Famous Newspaper In The World: From Dallas To Depserate Housewives (Pictures)
THE Most Famous Newspaper In The World is the one that appears on the telly most often. It’s not the New York Times or the Walford Gazette, it’s the paper that has been seen on the telly for years. This paper – the one with the story of the “Girl Third Brightest In Her Class” – has mopped up blood on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, kept the cops informed in No Country for Old Men (2007), helped out JR on Dallas (1991), appeared on Married With Children (1997), and featured on: Six Feet Under (2003), Malcolm in The Middle, Everybody Hates Chris, Scrubs and Desperate Housewives (2007-2010). The news doesn’t change…
Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man Makes Newspaper From Bull Dung
HAS Andrew Reilly found the future of print media by turning poo into paper? Reilly, an artist in Rangitikei, New Zealand, has transformed bull dung into paper. This adds to his work with kangaroo poo, wombat faeces and elephant manure.
The process involves Mr Reilly harvesting the poo and soaking it in buckets of water. Says he:
“There’s fibre from grass in there, the bull doesn’t actually process the fibre. It needs a good couple of weeks to soften up the fibre and start breaking down.”
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Posted: 9th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The New York Times And The Death Of Aged News
THE New York Times is dying – well, not really. it just needs to change, or die:
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Left Wing Opinion Killing Newspapers
NEWSPAPER revenue is falling fater than Susan Boyle’s eyebrows. Jamie Wearing notes:
Coming off record losses in 2008, things are getting even worse this year. Still, every media report continues to ignore the relentless leftwing slant of major newspapers as even the slightest factor.
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The Death Of Print: A Video
THEY said print was dead:
Posted: 22nd, January 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Unbungling Newspapers
NEWSPAPERS are losing out. Nwspapers are dying out:
Nicholas Carr, The Great Unbundling, April 2008
The nature of a newspaper, both as a medium for information and as a business, changes when it loses its physical form and shifts to the Internet. It gets read in a different way, and it makes money in a different way.
A print newspaper provides an array of content—local stories, national and international reports, news analyses, editorials and opinion columns, photographs, sports scores, stock tables, TV listings, cartoons, and a variety of classified and display advertising—all bundled together into a single product.
People subscribe to the bundle, or buy it at a newsstand, and advertisers pay to catch readers’ eyes as they thumb through the pages. The publisher’s goal is to make the entire package as attractive as possible to a broad set of readers and advertisers. The newspaper as a whole is what matters, and as a product it’s worth more than the sum of its parts.
When a newspaper moves online, the bundle falls apart.
The Death Of Newspapers: A Video
NEWSPAPERS are dying. Really dying. Dying…
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
How To Monetize Online Newspapers
NEWSPAPERS scramble about for readers. And if blogs can hire the best writing talent, newspapers will be doomed:
A blog is a newspaper concept without the kind of editorial and journalistic qualities usually associated with newspapers. A newspaper is a blog that is generally behind the curve on the new business and communication models of a blog. The answer is for blogs to structure themselves in a professional manner along the lines of a respected newspaper, and for newspapers to take technical advantage of the blog platform. They are not mutually exclusive – and in fact are the same entity but with polar strengths and weaknesses.
It’s all about being known:
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Newspapers Run Our Of Black Days
NEWSPAPERS have run out black days:
The journalistic industry is perilously close to collapse after running out of days in the week to dub ‘black’ in the event of dire economic news.Financial journalism has virtually frozen up after last week’s so-called ‘Black Friday’, which exhausted the stock of slightly varied clichés. Reporters were close to panic last night at the prospect of having unimaginatively to sensationalise any further stock-market falls this week.
It’s a black day in journalism…
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Posted: 17th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
