Words Dept.

It’s easy to buy into the Sun’s rhetoric that by not backing Labour at the next election, as it will officially announce tomorrow, the paper will somehow guide public opinion in favour of the Tories. You can almost sense the “Sun wot won it for Dave” headlines now. I’ve just watched the Sun’s political editor [...]

Apologies for not getting back to you. I’m here now, it’s OK. I’ve been thinking a lot about newspapers recently. About how I never buy one anymore except when I’m going on a long train journey, about the supposed closure of the Observer (which isn’t now happening), about what I can’t help thinking is gross [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Richard Herring.com: Warming up – Herring responds to out-of-context quotes in Guardian piece. “To have those contentious lines quoted out of context, with absolutely no explanation of what else takes place can have no other effect than to make the casual (and even the quite careful) reader assume that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Independent: Will La Liga soon be bigger than the Premier League? – Spanish league plans to switch some kick-offs to weekend lunchtimes to please Asian markets; top players staying in Spain Noel Gallagher: Manchester City should not buy Chelsea’s John Terry – “He’s got funny eyes and he’s a [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Matt Stewart: Why I’m releasing my novel on Twitter – Not sure if this is a joke. Telegraph: British Psychological Society: Miss Sophia Shaw – Amusing apology FT.com: Media research note by ‘teenage scribbler’ causes City sensation – 15 year old Morgan Stanley intern reveals teenagers don’t use Twitter. [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Guardian: U2 criticised for world tour carbon footprint – 44 dates have equivalent carbon footprint of a return flight to Mars. TNTJ: Have you fallen out of love with blogging? – More blog anxiety. Genuine trend? MediaGuardian: Trinity Mirror plans 66 more job cuts in north-east England – Yet [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Journalism.co.uk: Trinity Mirror confirms proposed closure of Midlands weeklies Playing the game (real adventures in journalism) – Anonymous blog about newpaper journalism

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Betty's Utility Room: Knickerless – A daft take on the departure of "Conor McKnickerless" (or is it George Lamb?) as editor of NME. Very funny. Guardian: Blogging: the long and short of it "Writing a blog [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Bloggers dispute Silvio Berlusconi party pictures – Italian PM allegedly airbrushed into photos of an 18-year-old model's birthday party, although no-one knows why. Jeff Jarvis: I'm not the only doomsayer On newspapers: "The insane response to [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Nielsen Wire: Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth – "Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher [...]