media
Emmerdale shoves jam rags in innocent kiddies’ faces
Jul 28th
The Daily Mail has worked itself up into a right tizz over last Friday’s episode of ITV1 soap Emmerdale, in which a chalked shopping list was seen to contain the items “jam rags” and “pile cream”.
PA explains that the outrage was “visible during Friday’s episode as a drunk Shadrach Dingle stumbled into his nephew Marlon’s kitchen”.
Vivienne Pattison, director of campaigning group Mediawatch, was on hand to fulminate: “I think it’s vulgar and inappropriate. ‘Pile cream’ I can deal with. It was the use of ‘jam rag’ that got me. I can’t imagine a woman writing that. It’s really vulgar and unnecessary.”
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SBS on the slow road to oblivian
May 28th
What is happening at SBS right now is just downright ludicrous, the Head of Subtitling (who is supposed to have left the list of targets on a photocopier) is claiming she is scared for her life and has been locking herself in her office. Also, she has not turned up at least twice since news broke of the redundancies. She is nothing but a coward that has no right claiming a taxpayer funded salary.
When You Don’t Know Your Own Strengths By David Ingram
SBS is busy kneecapping one of its most outstanding assets: its world-class subtitling section. David Ingram looks at More >
The 1st Official World Worm Web Awards – The Wormy’s
Jan 26th
With all the awards going around at the moment I thought I’d run my own awards for the things I like, The Wormy’s. As this is my first go I have made myself the sole arbiter of the awards. There are many varied categories so try to keep up. (more…)
Hottest 100 – 2009 – My Votes
Jan 15th
I voted in the 2009 triple j Hottest 100 here are my votes:
Lily Allen – Not Fair Came in at 8 Muse – Resistance – Came in at 35 Lily Allen – 22 – Came in at 60 Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land - Came in at 65 Muse – United States Of Eurasia - Came in at 84 Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone Arctic Monkeys – My Propeller Eels – Fresh Blood Eels – That Look You Give That Guy Yves Klein Blue – Make Up Your Mind
I hope at least one of them make it, but i was a bit rushed doing it and now i’m not so sure about a couple of them. More >
News Limited confirm Foxtel plans
Aug 25th
As I reported on 28th June, Foxtel will be launching 30 new channels later this year and News Limited publication The Australian has provided confirmation of some of them.
They list the following new and expanded offerings: Showtime Greats will be dropped in favour of Showtime genre channels covering action, premiere, comedy and drama. With action and comedy appearing in High Definition. The Movie Network will add Starpics, and the Family Movie Channel (FMC) with Starpics and Movie One going HD.
On the sports front Fox Sports 1 and 2 will be HD, no word on the previously mentioned Eurosport just yet.
Fox8 and W will More >
Reuters says linking to news is good
Aug 9th
Reuters Media President, Chris Ahearn has invited bloggers to link to Reuters content at will, while News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch says he wants all News Corp content monetized in the next 12 months. And today we hear that Fairfax is looking at ways to monetize their news sites here in Australia.
Chris Ahearn says :“I don’t believe you could or should charge others for simply linking to your content. Appropriate excerpting and referencing are not only acceptable, but encouraged.”
Whilst I can’t disagree that advertising in newspapers does prop it up, The Daily Telegraph in Sydney is mostly ads with very little “journalism”, More >
