David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 30 June, 2007 at 2:21 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + journalism + politics category . {1 Comment}
Seems I wasn’t the only one baffled by the BBC’s decision to cut short Tony Blair’s speech on Wednesday. Fending off conspiracy allegations, the corporation is now investigating what happened, after admitting “the wrong decision” was made.
Link to the story on Media Guardian – registration required. Or if you can’t be bothered registering, here is [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 30 June, 2007 at 2:08 pm. It's been filed in the bbc category . {Comment}
Simon O’Brien, ex-Brookside actor and sometime TV presenter, quit his job as the breakfast DJ on BBC Radio Merseyside earlier this week after using the phrase “fuck the government”. The comment related to an ongoing battle over housing demolition on Liverpool’s Edge Lane and was made off-air (shades of Big Ron Atkinson here) but was [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 29 June, 2007 at 5:37 pm. It's been filed in the magazines category . {2 Comments}
Proving political correctness is almost certainly dead, Nuts magazine has a semi-nude photo spread this week featuring disgraced posh racist Emily from Big Brother. (For those unfamiliar with the intellectual tour de force that is Channel 4’s summer schedule, she got kicked out for calling a fellow contestant the N-word… apparently in jest, blah, blah, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 28 June, 2007 at 5:53 pm. It's been filed in the celebrities + music + pr category . {Comment}
I could be wrong, but I’m sure it was no more than about six weeks ago I saw Mel “Melanie C” Chisholm on that vaguely annoying Sunday morning cookery programme with Tim Lovejoy, saying she would never be part of a Spice Girls “reunion” because she didn’t want to destroy the memories (man). She admitted [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 27 June, 2007 at 1:25 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + politics category . {Comment}
I just took an early lunch break to watch Tony Blair’s final performance at Prime Minister’s Question Time. It overran by about five minutes and, just before the end, BBC 2 cut back to Andrew Neil in the BBC’s Westminster studio, who apologised and said they were going to have to end the Daily Politics [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 25 June, 2007 at 8:25 pm. It's been filed in the journalism + music category . {Comment}
There’s a very funny article in the Guardian today by the excellent Charlie Brooker, who dons his emerging “grouch for all seasons” persona (rather than his former “foul-mouthed TV reviewer” persona) and buggers off to Glastonbury.
Having listed camping, mud and “loud noises” as three things he hates, he is forced to admit that by the [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 24 June, 2007 at 11:26 pm. It's been filed in the movies + politics category . {1 Comment}
There’s an interesting review of Michael Moore’s new movie, Sicko, on Salon.com. The film is about the apparent failures of the healthcare system in the USA. In one section, Moore travels to the UK and, in an attempt to illustrate how the USA has got it all wrong, presents free healthcare on the NHS as [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 23 June, 2007 at 6:49 pm. It's been filed in the blogging + journalism + music category . {2 Comments}
The Guardian’s bloggers have posted 13 times from the Glastonbury festival so far today, and 11 times yesterday. Perhaps a little excessive, considering the most obvious audience for this stuff is drowning in mud and cow shit on a farm in Somerset… and presumably hasn’t packed the MacBook.
The majority of comment seems to be from [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 22 June, 2007 at 5:39 pm. It's been filed in the design + magazines + manchester category . {1 Comment}
Jamie Hewlett, of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame, has created the art and costume design for a new production of a Chinese “circus opera” to be staged as part of the Manchester International Festival, which starts next week. It’s called Monkey: Journey to the West and features music by Damon Albarn.
Dazed & Confused has an [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 22 June, 2007 at 5:38 pm. It's been filed in the journalism + politics + television category . {Comment}
CNN has linked up with YouTube, inviting people to post questions to US presidential candidates. Predictably, the results are Godawful. Here’s a link to an amusing selection of the worst five videos posted.
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