September 9, 2003• Media
Wow. I guess I’m just living in cloud-cuckoo land. Why do I listen and watch the BBC’s news when it’s so biased? Today...
August 24, 2003• Media
How exciting is this? I can’t wait. OK – time to step back a little. I think that while old news programmes and a number of...
April 24, 2003• Media
Just watched an entertaining piece about US efforts to present themselves to the Iraqis by rebroadcasting American news programming locally...
March 27, 2003• Media
This article in today’s G2 in The Guardian provides a pretty accurate overview of the live TV news coverage of the war to date. Sadly...
March 18, 2003• Media
It was quite interesting to read the shortlist of books for the Independent’s Foreign Fiction prize. Interesting because I’ve...
February 21, 2003• Media
OK – so last it was The Brits. Somehow, these are still painted as a creditable awards ceremony, even though they’ve patently...
January 12, 2003• Media
Good to see the numbers game is alive and well. I mean of course, estimating the number of marchers at a protest rally. The BBC are saying...
December 15, 2002• Media
So why can the French produce a nice DVD magazine for only �7.50 (just under �5) that has a full film on the cover, while we...
December 3, 2002• Media
David Thomson has written an interesting piece in today’s Guardian about the lack of politics in today’s films, with producers...
July 5, 2002• Media
Well, no-one can really claim to be too surprised about the BBC/Crown Castle/BSkyB consortium winning. This is probably the best that can...
