Posted in charities, Africa, Media on Sep 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
Following on from (RED)´s philosophy - that consumption and marketing can save Africa from AIDS, while making huge profits for consumer product corporations who employ sweatshop labour - here’s a clip from Bill Hicks, talking about people who work in marketing.
Enjoy.
Posted in Media, Politics on Aug 14th, 2008 5 Comments »
Infinite Thought has taken to co-translating some of Badiou occasional pieces. Here he is on journalists:
Aside from the argument ‘elsewhere it’s worse’, today’s bar talk makes great use of ‘we tried, it was a catastrophe’. Somewhat like old soldiers talking about a war that’s now regarded as miserable. The Stalinists, the venerable Trotskyists, the […]
Posted in US Election, US Politics, Google, Internet, Media on Jul 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Usually I don’t bother my arse reading Nick Cohen, but the freaky picture above on today’s Guardian website caught my attention and so like the dummy I am, I clicked on the link. Inside, Cohen is berating the liberal left for a fuckload of crimes, including the inability to laugh at Barack Obama.
If you search […]
Posted in Media on Jul 23rd, 2008 6 Comments »
This is weird. My brother lives in London, no that’s not weird, but being the loyal ex-pat he follows Irish news almost excessively. The conviction today of the three English drug smugglers is certainly newsworthy, and with an estimated €440 Million haul and the lengthy sentences they received, you would imagine that it would be […]
Posted in Irish Left Review, Lisbon Treaty, Media on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
There was a lot of noise generated last week about the Lisbon situation when the Irish Times reported Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments during a private meeting with colleagues in his UMP party. The comments, reported by party members to journalists outside the meeting suggested, non, insisted that Ireland would have to have a second referendum.
This […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Working Class, Media on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The main difference between the Irish Times and the Irish Independent at the moment seems to be style rather than content. For example, the Irish Independent created the debating point that immigration was a factor in the Lisbon Referendum using the leak from the European commission as the basis to do it, and the Irish […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Media on Jul 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
With all the depressing news in the media these days, you sometimes miss other, non-economy related depressing news. Or maybe it’s good news. I dunno, it all depends on your perspective.
On the 24th of June the Irish Independent reported that John O’Shea of Seoige & O’Shea’s afternoon show on RTE One will not be […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, Media on Jun 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Remember all of that stuff last week about the initial findings of the Eurobarometer report, as reported in the Irish Independent and a day later in the Irish Times and how it was so significantly wrong, especially when compared to the actual Eurobarometer report which was published last Friday?
On the day after the […]
Posted in aesthetics, Film on Jun 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Well, Peter Griffin hasn’t seen it - at least, not all the way through. This is a kinetic typography version of Family Guy discussing the great movie itself.
Enjoy.
Posted in Working Class, Film on Jun 4th, 2008 No Comments »
From YouTube blurb:
Shane Meadows visited Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge in sept 2004 to show an A-level Film Studies class a few of his short films, talk about his up coming release of Dead Man’s Shoes. And to answer questions about his career and techniques. He speaks of Once Upon A Time In […]