So many press releases are ruined by inane quotes. So here’s Morrissey, talking about his forthcoming gig at this summer’s O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, showing how it should be done. I like to imagine the press officer making up something suitable, sending it off to Moz for approval, and finding out later that [...]

For all-round wrongness, Carol Vorderman advertising cheapo chicken from Farmfoods in the ad-break for Dick Fearnley-Whittington’s Be Nice to Cocks programme (or whatever it was called) was bad. But professional dimwit Danielle Lloyd’s recruitment as the “face” of a new campaign for Rustlers’ Microwaveable Offalburgers (TM) surely trumps it.
Ignoramus Lloyd famously said, during an appearance [...]

Compare and contrast Britain with North Korea. One has a state-controlled media, news blackouts and pages and pages of congratulatory and uncritical PR puff about senior members of a privileged, unelected elite. The other is North Korea. Boom boom.
The BBC has been justifying its decision not to report for the last ten weeks the [...]

I’m watching GMTV again. The section called Entertainment Today, or just ET, as it was introduced. (Sadly there are no aliens, unless there’s something we don’t know about Jenni Falconer.)
They just featured an interview with Antony Cotton off of Coronation Street, who was discussing the storyline in tonight’s episode. I fully understand the purpose of [...]

I’ve had, for the first time, an e-mail from a PR promoting a magazine. She says that since I am a “keen online commentator in the media arena” (pffffft!), I may be interested in the decidedly pretentious sounding publication she is promoting,
which includes a photo feature on “The new heirlooms”, shot by Mary McCartney and [...]

I stumbled across this press release from Edinburgh council today. It made me snigger like a child:
Fish merchants have recently been making unsolicited calls on residents in the Inverleith area. Two men who have been calling on homes in the area are described as having North East English accents and were wearing jumpers with ‘North [...]

Well done ITV. Not for profiting to the tune of £7.8m by taking money from uncounted phone-in votes but for releasing news of it on the same day that the BBC announces massive budget cuts and 1,800 redundancies.
The date of the BBC announcement has been known for weeks. Michael Grade says that he chose today [...]

Someone sent me a croissant and some jam in a lunchbox today. It’s about the weirdest thing I’ve ever been sent in the mail. It also came with a mug, a teabag and a sachet of instant coffee.
Luckily there was a letter to explain. The idea was that instead of dragging me out to wherever [...]

This is a real beauty. Somehow, the Liverpool Daily Post has got hold of an e-mail from Liverpool council leader Warren Bradley to council chief executive Colin Hilton demanding that the chief executive of the Liverpool Culture Company, Jason Harborow, should resign over the fiasco involving this year’s Mathew Street festival. Gleefully, they have printed [...]

Witness the power of hype. This mystery trailer has echoes of Blair Witch Project and is causing similar ripples. It’s a film that doesn’t even have a title yet but is sending YouTube theorists into a frenzy.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Project Slosho/Cloverfield/1-18-08 as it’s variously known, is produced by JJ Abrams of Lost fame - a man [...]