Archive for the 'International Media' Category
Meta-Viral
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008So a couple of days ago a video pops up on the internet of a TV news blooper where a bird craps in a reporter’s mouth while he’s on location.
Here:
It seems pretty real up until the “money shot”, at which point the reporter’s reaction seems a little staged.
Unsurprisingly, the newly released “Behind The Scenes” video […]
That thin line
Monday, November 19th, 2007There is a thin line between being seen as a in touch with the modern world and being seen as completely out of touch. There is a thin line between getting the joke and being the joke. There is a thin line between being seen as respectable and in tune and being seen as foolish […]
Don’t be a loser, get a social life (SBP - 18th Nov. 2007)
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Here’s a transcript of my article from the Media & Marketing section of The Sunday Business Post on marketing and social networking; found in today’s edition:
Pushing your products successfully on sites such as Myspace.com, Facebook.com and Bebo.com takes a savvy approach, writes Adam Maguire.
Social networking sites offer huge potential to companies willing to take them […]
British digital switchover proper set to begin
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007In just a few hours time Britain’s Whitehaven & Copeland TV region will become the first in the country to switch off its analogue TV signal and go digital. This event will mark the start of a five-year process that will see the UK go entirely digital just in time for the quasi-deadline of 2012, […]
Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007If you’re the type of person that flicks around the TV, producing a slightly louder and more depressed sigh as each funographic programme manifests itself in front of your very eyes, then Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is for you.
It’s on BBC4 tonight at 10pm and can only be described as one man’s cynical commentary on what […]
“As of yet we have no idea how terrible this story will turn out”
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Satire has always been one of the most powerful media for political and social comment, particularly when it comes to the media.
Chris Morris’ The Day Today and Brass Eye both lampooned the sensationalisation of news and current affairs coverage in the UK while simultaneously preying on the gullibility and egotism of minor celebrities and politicians […]
The not-so-great Gatsby
Friday, August 10th, 2007Gatsby publishing, the company behind the now defunct US magazine The New York Dog and equally defunct Irish gossip site Blogorrah is in some serious financial trouble; although the exact reasons for this are still up for debate.
Dig & Scratch today posted a long report detailing accusations made by alleged former employees directed at Gatsby […]
O’Brien ups INM stake
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007(Via Greenslade)
The Irish Independent gives a fleeting mention to the fact that Denis O’Brien (owner of Communicorp) has upped his stake in INM from 8.35% to just over 9%.
There’s no details at present on what price he paid for the shares or when exactly they were bought.
Expect O’Brien to continue his slow-creep tactic over the […]
What’s the point of facebook?
Friday, July 27th, 2007I tend to avoid using most “2.0″ web applications because I fail to see an advantage in doing so. Don’t get me wrong, some applications have been used particularly well by some people but that doesn’t mean that I can do much with them myself.
I knew very little about Facebook and was equally apathetic but […]
A modern media fable
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Not so long ago, in a place not too far from here there lived a conservative and very opinionated man named Master Osborn Stockdale.
Stockdale loved his country very much; so much so that he would regularly warn of its slow demise and impending destruction to anyone who cared to listen. “Society is coming to an […]
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