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Political Ideologies in Assessing the Mass Media

Political ideologies are a prevailing feature of 20th century thought, not least the battle between the left and right, the free market and the centrally controlled socialist utopia. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is perhaps the best example of this, transforming and supposedly adapting the socialist rhetoric into one which he believes can fit the model of [ READ MORE ]

What happened to rights?

So as I was getting ready this morning and flicked on the TV (in the interest of full disclosure, it was TV3′s Midday) to discover that they were talking about the CCTV cameras placed in the toilets of a Kildare secondary school and subsequent protest by students. The full story is here but more than [ READ MORE ]

More FF nonsense

So I’m sure this post is already pretty redundant. Damien has been been pretty on the ball. Alexia covered it (here and here) Gavin, Alan, Suzy… basically I’m the one of the last to jump on the bandwagon. As everyone in the blogopolis already knows, an artist succeeded in hanging two separate caricatures of Brian [ READ MORE ]

Save Rick and Nikki!

As mentioned by Damien, yesterday was “Complain to 2FM About Rick” Day. Here’s the reply I got - Dear Charles, Thank you for your e-mail. Your comments in relation to the changed format of the Rick O’Shea and Nikki Hayes shows will be included in our Audience Log of calls and e-mails, which is circulated [ READ MORE ]

The end (of intelligent TV) is nigh…

Variety is reporting that due to flagging ratings MTV is planning to make 16 new reality shows. Because we all want more of those inane bitchy girls from California on our screens. Anyone else miss the days when they actually played music[ READ MORE ]

Burka Abeam?

A very clever blogger is after finding a news article which refers to the President Elect Burka Abeam…. fantastic fact-checker they have for themselves[ READ MORE ]

This is bound to irk people…

Despite those of us who think it was prudent for Obama as simply president elect to remain somewhat quiet on the scandal surround his state’s governor, there is one non-sensical journalist out there willing to compare it to 9/11 and Bush’s reading of a children’s book while NY city burned. And there we all were [ READ MORE ]

Got to love it…

Mimobots have to be the sexiest USB key I’ve ever seen. Where else can you get original designs are firm favourites as your USB and up to 8GB? Also comes loaded with free screensavers, wallpapers, icons and even sounds for when docking it with your PC or laptop… my Mac will be the hottest geek [ READ MORE ]

Something everyone wants for Christmas…

A charming German artist has come up with a new installation “Dance of/with the Devil”. The best part is that part of the work involves the lining up of several hundred Nazi gnomes. And there was me thinking that David Hasselhof’s music was the most offensive thing to come out of there in recent years[ READ MORE ]

I’m going to hell for this

Couldn’t resist putting this up – would really make you wonder how geeky I’m getting[ READ MORE ]

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