Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe S1E3P3 – Includes a short film by Adam Curtis about the rise of ‘Ohdearism’.
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Adam Curtis – Oh dearism
April 11th, 2009
Tags: adam curtis · charlie brooker · media · newswipe · television
Tuesdays with Rupert
September 7th, 2008
Rupert Murdoch at News Corporation’s headquarters, in Manhattan, July 18, 2008. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair, Tuesdays with Rupert: “For nine months, I’ve been interviewing Rupert Murdoch, in an unlikely spirit of openness precipitated by his great satisfaction in having bought The Wall Street Journal, about journalism, his business, politics, his [...]
Tags: media · rupert murdoch · usa · wall street journal
Kill the Cliché
March 18th, 2008
“Killthecliche.com tracks journalistic clichés found in major newspapers and calls out the worst offenders.” Via FP Passport. Zie ook DMWH’s Media Mammon.
Tags: cliché · journalism · media · usa
‘Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex.’
March 13th, 2008
Lauren Berlant in The Nation, Against Sexual Scandal: “Instead, what stories like this really do is to damage the reputation of sex. Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex. I felt sorry for sex during the Larry Craig brouhaha last summer. What if he liked being married and procreating and giving anonymous [...]
Tags: eliot spitzer · erotophobia · media · sex · sexuality · usa
This ain’t Aruba, bitch.
February 2nd, 2008
“This ain’t Aruba, bitch.” – Bunk (The Wire: Unconfirmed Reports.) Entertainment Weekly, ”The Wire”: Bright Lies, Big City: “Last night’s epigraph – ”This ain’t Aruba, bitch” – was delivered by a slurring Bunk at the bar. All those black bodies found in the rowhouses aren’t enough to warrant a continued investigation, and Bunk, McNulty, and [...]
Tags: aruba · crime · joran van der sloot · media · mwws · natalee holloway · nl · the wire · tv · usa
The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
December 13th, 2007
Regret the Error, The Year in Media Errors and Corrections: “Apology of the Year Sunday Times (UK): An article about Lord Lambton (“Lord Louche, sex king of Chiantishire”, News Review, January 7) falsely stated that his son Ned (now Lord Durham) and daughter Catherine held a party at Lord Lambton’s villa, Cetinale, in 1997, which [...]
De onderwereld is er helemaal bovenop
November 16th, 2007
Jan Blokker, De onderwereld is er helemaal bovenop: “Als je vroeger van dat soort dingen op de hoogte wilde blijven, moest je eerst naar een enigszins obscuur winkeltje waar ze behalve De Telegraaf en Marsrepen ook geïllustreerde roddelbladen te koop hadden. Om op de terugweg toch weer fatsoenlijk over straat te kunnen vouwde je die [...]
Tags: media · nl · nrc handelsblad
De Volkskrant is een hedgefund. Over Geert Wilders en een ochtendblad.
August 8th, 2007
Hubert Smeets: “De Volkskrant drukt blijkbaar onbeschroomd artikelen af van mensen van wie de krant vermoedt dat ze mogelijk niet goed snik zijn. Iemand die “niet toerekeningsvatbaar” is, wordt in de Nederlandse rechtszaal vaak beschermd tegen zichzelf: bijvoorbeeld door hem of haar niet naar de gevangenis te sturen maar naar een psychiatrische inrichting. Dit mes [...]
Tags: geert wilders · hubert smeets · media · nl · politics · volkskrant