Category: Media

  • Despicable rags

    Obsolete has written a fantastic post about Robert Murat’s successful libel action against 11 – 11! – newspapers. the truly unprecedented payout to Robert Murat by not just the Express papers but every single one of the daily tabloids with the exception of the Daily Sport, three of the Sunday tabloids and also the Scotsman…

  • “I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that God’s got a sick sense of humour…”

    Remember the attempts by Christian Voice to prosecute various people over Jerry Springer: The Opera? And the £90,000 costs awarded against CV’s Stephen Green? It seems Green is asking for some good old-fashioned Christian charity from the very people he tried to prosecute. The money is due to be paid today, but Stephen Green doesn’t…

  • Is this the future of magazine publishing? Probably not, but it’s still interesting

    The Magazineer has put up an interesting post about MagCloud, a print-on-demand service designed specifically for magazines. The content available so far isn’t particularly inspiring, but the idea itself is quite interesting. But there’s still something about paper. It’s not just because screens suck to read on (they do, but that hasn’t kept us from…

  • Should NME become a freesheet?

    An interesting suggestion from No Rock’n’Roll Fun as NME unveils the seventy-third redesign this year: Maybe the logical thing to do would be to abandon charging – perhaps except for subscribers, who could pay to ensure their supply – and try to build the readership that way. It might make more long-term sense than another…

  • Keystone cops prevent perfectly legal photography

    Number one, on Boing Boing: Security goons, store-clerks and police officers detained Flickr user “i didn’t mean to go to Stoke” for taking photos in the outdoor, pedestrianized area of Middlesbrough, UK Meanwhile in London, the PCSO (aka Keystone Cops or “not cops at all”) try to stop someone filming (video link). There are places…

  • Flat Earth News

    As one of the cover quotes puts it, if even half of what Nick Davies writes in his expose of the news industry is true then things are truly terrifying. The stuff on Iraq, the neutering of the Sunday Times Insight team and the problems of “churnalism” have been covered elsewhere, so I won’t go…

  • Even better than the real thing

    This is brilliant: Fake Steve Jobs takes on Wired reporter Leander Kahney and wins spectacularly. Leander, you are a hopeless pussy. This kind of attitude is why you’re a hack at Wired and not running your own multi-billion-dollar company. It’s not just that the interview is funny, although it is: it’s that in these days…

  • iPod porn and news that isn’t news

    An interesting article (Salon.com, via Fark) on a rash of iPod-porn stories that appeared on US TV. Now, iPod/iPhone porn does exist – the porn industry isn’t exactly slow to embrace new technology – but what’s interesting is the content of the news reports. Nine stations aired Raskin’s warnings. Her segments had the look and…

  • The Friday Project goes bust

    The Friday Project, blog-book publisher extraordinaire, has gone bust. As Bobbie Johnson writes: According to my sources, The Friday Project has always operated a fairly predatory approach to the web; offering most of their writers fairly desultory rewards for their work, especially compared to the deals offered some other bloggers). Still, any penny pinching didn’t…

  • PopJustice on Heidi Montag: good point, well made

    Reality TV star Heidi Montag was a bit upset when those nasty internet people slagged off her video: “I just started sobbing uncontrollably. I cried myself to sleep that first night after my video came out. I just couldn’t understand [how people] I didn’t even know felt the need to be so cruel and hurtful…