Category: Media

I love reading, watching and listening to film reviews. But today’s review of MI3 in The Guardian is staggering for just how bad it is. I don’t really like Peter Bradshaw but then I don’t dislike him either. Overall he’s got reasonable taste in taste in films, but his review today is so far off-beam…

The BBC, Reuters and The Media Center have been holding We The Media today in London. There are a couple of blogs from the event here, here and here, and the BBC has been streaming it too. But one interesting piece of research to be shared at the event comes from a specially commissioned survey…

OK – I’ve been tempted away from the straight and narrow again. The Daily Mail is running a free DVD promotion at the moment, and it’s just too easy to stop off at the WH Smith in the tube station each morning and pick up The Ladykillers for 45p. I’ve already had other Ealing classics…

OK. This is getting silly. According to the latest news at Mediaguardian, Mahmood’s won another temporary injunction preventing publication of his photograph. Why? If he was in a witness protection scheme, then I could understand it. But as far as I’m aware he’s not. So why can’t we see his picture. Well, there’s an old…

I am absolutely no fan of George Galloway. Time and again he’s shown himself to be a complete buffoon. However, I fail to understand exactly how News International have gained a 24 hour injunction to prevent the publication of pictures of the fake sheikh himself, Mahzer Mahmood. The News of the World regularly publishes photos…

There are a couple of things I’ve noticed that seem to have become obligatory in all newspapers these days which annoy me to lesser or greater extents. 1) Just about every newspaper album review these days ends with a “Download” suggestion. I know we live in a download culture, and to a lesser or greater…

Has anyone else seen those AOL cinema ads voiced by John Hurt? They’re promoting their “discuss” section of their website. There’s an “bad thing” and a “good thing” one (the transcript of which I can’t find). Having been through all the Big Brother aspects of a net connected world, the “good thing” ad tells us,…

Sadly, I’m talking about the TV programme, Big Brother – in particular, Celebrity Big Brother. Now I know that this is futile exercise, and no matter how much I say or write isn’t going to make a single iota’s difference, but sometimes the coverage that this programme gets infuriate’s me. In a weekly email, Newsnight’s…

As Ofcom hurries to switch off analogue TV and get us all over to digital, the question is, what’s going to happen to all that free spectrum? This week’s Broadcast magazine reports that the BBC is trying to interest the other terrestrial analogue broadcasters into joining it to persuade the government that they should hand…

“Henman Crashes Out”. Does he ever get ‘knocked out’, ‘beaten’ or ‘defeated’? No. He ‘crashes out’. Indeed most tennis players ‘crash out’. A Google search of “tennis” and “crashes out” reveals around 46,000 mentions. Who says sports journalism is cliched?

Well Rupert Murdoch might be fed up with them, but this weekend, free DVDs in newspapers were back with a vengence. Yesterday, The Guardian had the not bad Let Him Have It starring Christopher Eccleston, while the Independent and its Sunday sister was on a mission to get its readers to appreciate world cinema by…

This is a video that we’re quite pleased with and are launching virally to promote Christian O’Connell’s new breakfast show starting in a week or so. Google Video’s slowly improving so we’ve put it up there, and I can eat into my own bandwidth by embedding it here. (I didn’t either ask the questions or…

The American tourist board are currently running a series of ads to get us to visit their wonderful country. This uses the guise of films with the tagline “You’ve seen the film, now visit the set.” Now, leaving aside the unsuitability of some of the titles (Leaving Las Vegas really isn’t the film to put…