Tag: media

Yet another tuppence on why traditional media isn’t dead yet

  • January 5, 2011 at 8:45 pm

  • I’ve just read on the cover of Metro that the details of Prince William’s wedding ceremony were released ‘exclusively on social networking site Twitter’. Even Clarence House is bypassing traditional news outlets; so are we finally seeing the demise of ‘traditional’ media? No, probably not. The thing is I didn’t discover this news on Twitter. [...]

‘I’m proud of the BBC’

  • October 22, 2010 at 6:27 pm

  • I’m a big fan of the BBC, and very pleased that Mitch Benn is releasing this song on 1 November. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get it to Christmas Number One while the government is busy tearing chunks out of the Corporation?

Young people see the media as powerful but don’t trust it: particularly not the tabloids

  • December 1, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  • Recent research reveals that young people in the UK have little faith in journalists, but see them as having the greatest influence on government decisions. And tabloid journalists, it seems, are the worst of a bad bunch. The research was undertaken last week by online pollsters YouGov, on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation. Almost 4,000 [...]

Will paid-for news create a new underclass?

  • November 9, 2009 at 5:35 pm

  • What happens when paid-for news content online becomes sustainable and influential, but a significant chunk of people who are currently engaged and informed get news from other sources? (This is a very under-developed thought; I’m only putting it here because it’s too long for Twitter.) I never buy the Financial Times, but I used to [...]

House of Lords Competition

  • May 28, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Possibly one of the driest, most unappealing web pages you could hope to produce: but its content deserves so much more, which is why I’m adding it here. The House of Lords and the Hansard Society are running a competition for 11-16 year olds, in which they submit views to the Lords Communications Committee. The [...]