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Charting Again
Do you follow the charts? No, me neither. But I couldn’t help noticing that Elvis is having something of a resurgence. Currently there are three singles in the Top 40: Blue Suede Shoes is a “new” entry at no. 13. My Baby Left Me is a “new” entry at no. 19. Suspicious Minds is at…
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Will the Standard Survive
In today’s Media Guardian, Alan Ruddock ponders whether the venerable London Evening Standard will survive the onslaught that has been News International’s London Paper and Associated’s very own London Lite. It has been a year since the two free papers launched, and neither of them are yet profitable. The Standard has unsurprisingly taken something of…
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A Trip Around Dorset
Since Saturday was lovely, but I was indoors for too much of it, I though that some outdoor adventure would be an idea. I quite fancied the beach, but it was blindingly obvious that thousands of others would also be heading beachwards, so I was going to have to be quite careful about where I…
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Still on the Payroll
Via Roy Greenslade’s blog come this link to a story about a mythical Fleet Street feature writer. Wonderful stuff!
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State of the TV Nation
Over on the BBC’s Editors’ Blog, Newsnight Editor Peter Barron invites readers to post their thoughts on the current state of British television. He’s one of the organisers of the Edinburgh Television Festival and he’s planning on putting the comments on both the festival website and the walls of the conference centre (I assume they’ll…
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A Couple of Thoughts on Hurricane Dean Coverage
Obviously this is an ongoing story, and since I’ve spent the whole weekend in a field outside of Chelmsford, I’m basing this on Monday evening’s coverage. I noticed that the BBC had relatively few pictures on News 24 for their “B-roll” of Jamaica post the hurricane’s passing. But it wasn’t nearly as bad as the…
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Reason and Superstition on TV
What an interesting week for sceptics on television. On Monday night, Richard Dawkins began a two part documentary entitled Enemies of Reason. Dawkins takes on a great many things – aside from religion – under that premise that superstition has taken over from reason. I can’t really fault him on much. At one point he…
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Amazon Recommends
I love Amazon. They contribute literally pennies to the running of this site. Let’s put it this way, I’ve never actually reached the threshold for getting even an Amazon token from them from people clicking the links on this site. Nonetheless, I use Amazon a reasonable amount, and they send lots of email advertising as…
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MusicFirst
I’m often going on about the iniquity of record companies and the things that they do or try to do. In particular, the foiled (so far) attempts to increase the performance copyright from the current fifty years. But I must admit, I do have sympathy with the current campaign, highlighted in this week’s Music Week…
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Scotland for Scottish People
In this week’s Marketing magazine, Ray Snoddy discusses the Alex Salmond proposed Scottish Broadcasting Commission (not online currently, but it should appear somewhere here – free registration may be required). The gist of the argument is that national news emanating from London, does not cover Scottish issues properly and indeed ignores them. Many discussions about…
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Ascent
Jed Mercurio first sprang to attention with the wonderful medical TV series, Cardiac Arrest. At the time he was a practising doctor and wrote under a pseudonym. He went on to write a novel, Bodies, in a similar vein, and of course this was made into that rarest of things – a decent BBC Three…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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