Category: Mainstream Media

Iron Maiden, integrity, and The Daily Mash

46-year-old Maiden fan Roy Hobbs said: “I go to work doing a job I can’t even be bothered to describe, then I come home and eat either a pie or a casserole with my wife, who is also into Maiden, then we drink a couple of beers and listen toThe Number of the Beast. “We’re very happy. Why wouldn’t we be?” Sometimes I wish the Daily Mash would stop doing real world features and go back to doing satire.

Weapons of Mass Cooking

News Thump: After the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction it has emerged that Tony Blair could have been right about Iraq all along. WMDs had previously been categorised as nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, but now that a pressure cooker with a bomb inside has been added to the list it appears that the joint American/British invasion of Iraq was entirely justified. “This totally changes everything,” said an official spokesperson for Tony Blair. The biggest worry is that much of the challenging and questioning journalistic voices today are coming from

John Barrowman is upset…

As John Barrowman makes sure the world knows that nobody asked him to be in the 50th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who and he’s upset about that, it’s worth remembering that Mr Saturday Night’s emphatic “Now that’s Eurovision!” towards Scooch ensured they were voted as the UK representatives in 2007 instead of Cyndi. We’re still upset over that one as well.

Second screening The Masters, and the slow death of television

If there’s one area that TV should have the high ground on, it’s live sporting events of national prominence. Yet… The second screen experience slowly replaced the first — I barely looked up at the television. CBS’s reverent, almost whispered coverage took a back seat as I programmed my version of the Masters. The function that would have allowed me to throw the Internet coverage to my big-screen television was not enabled, but that’s only a matter of time. Change often comes very slowly, but then happens all at once. I await once more with keen interest what this year’s

“The silencing of the Munchkins must rank as one of the most inept acts of censorship Britain has seen.”

Nick Cohen, having some fun with language over Judy Garland’s latest hit single: Its decision to ban every part of the song except for a five-second clip in a news report shows clearly something that many people outside the media rarely understand: the BBC folds under pressure. During the debate on the politicians’ plans to regulate the press and news websites, many people have asked why journalists should worry when regulation works so well at the BBC. The behaviour of the BBC last week explains why. Tory MPs and the Daily Mail picked on the BBC rather than iTunes or YouTube because