Television
‘Celebrity-dominated’
There’s something on the Daily Mail website that you have to see. To find it, you must visit dailymail.co.uk and scroll down… Past the news that Britney Spears has become engaged with someone. Past the news that someone called Kylie Jenner,… Read more
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Twitter diversity audits and Mock the Week: Why the BBC is failing its audience
(This has been cross-posted from Frau BH’s blog, Frau BH Versus the World.) If anyone follows the F-Word on Twitter, you will know that they have been encouraging diversity audits of TV/radio programmes to highlight just how male-orientated the… Read more
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Jan Moir chastises ‘left-wing comics’ for being nasty
Of all the hacks and columnists in Fleet Street, surely Jan Moir is the least qualified to criticise someone for being nasty about someone else for money. But, all the same, that is precisely what she did in yesterday’s column: As an… Read more
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Watch Channel 5, says the Daily Express
Today’s example of shameless cross-promotion comes in the form of the following story from the Daily Express: The article victoriously tells us that: OUT of 36 films on television over Easter, families will get just two new ones – with… Read more
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Daily Star – the Sun’s dishonest wannabe*
Compare the front page of today’s Daily Star with the front page of today’s Sun, if you can bear it: What impression do you get from the Star’s main story? That the Channel 4 show, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, is a fake, and a fix and a con. It… Read more
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Sense of humour failure
Last Thursday, Deborah Orr from the Guardian wrote the following about the Channel 4 programme 10 O’Clock Live: Last week was particularly excruciating. The auto-cue went wrong while Laverne and Charlie Brooker were on camera. Neither of them… Read more
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The Sun apologises to ITV for false story about Al-Qaeda threat to Coronation Street
Remember this front page story from the Sun? Well, it was rubbish. There was no Al-Qaeda threat to Coronation Street. At all. Tabloid Watch pointed this out at the time and, eventually, The Sun also admitted it was rubbish and published a… Read more
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Some apologies
On the 15th May, the Mail on Sunday published the following article: In the article, written by Jason Lewis, the Mail said: A decision by a climate-change group to fly leading activists 12,000 miles to a conference threatens to tear the… Read more
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