Archive for April 2008
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Birmingham Through the Eyes of Telly
BBC Radio 4 did a feature on Quota Quickies which included a film about Birmingham that was narrated by Telly Savalas. Here is Birmingham as told by Kojak.
The Myth of a Media Spectrum
This is an excerpt taken from Medialens. A site where people are scrutinising news items and identifying the agendas of mass media. This particular article questions the whole notion of a “liberal” journalism working within corporate news conglomerates.
In a BBC interview in 1996, Andrew Marr, then of the Independent, described the “spectrum” of media available [...]
How To Deal with Spammers
Taken from my friend Tony’s Livejournal:
I didn’t realise how much fun you can have talking to the spammers just using lines from TV commercials!
Today I used the dialogue between Brennan Brown and Snoop Dogg on the “Orange Wednesday” advert…
Linda Mark: hi how are you
Anthony Morel: I’m wiggidy wiggidy wack yo!
Linda Mark: I represent a textiles [...]
St. George’s Day - Two Poems
There was a feature on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme where two poets gave two very different perspectives on St. George’s Day.
I think the “English” at present are going through what a lot of the Eastern European countries went through post-USSR. England is still trying to find a common identity after devolution and who knows [...]
When Water is Torture
Amnesty International have made a short film called Stuff of Life. Its purpose is to raise awareness of water-boarding, an “enhanced interrogation” technique where a person is stretched on his back, a cloth placed in his mouth and then water poured over his face.
The US government states that it’s not torture. Watch the film and [...]