Newspapers Blogs & Blog Posts
Blogs on newspapers
|
Posting Frequency on newspapers
|
Distinct: |
Percent: |
Latest Blog Posts on newspapers
- The Colonial pretenders: Why I own Scotland, and Kevin doesn’t by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 21, 2009
A well known Napier identity believes he may have been cheated of an inheritance worth billions of dollars. It includes vast tracts of Scotland, the minerals and shellfish in and around Lake Hatuma in New Zealand’s Central Hawke’s Bay, a mult...
- Quote of the week: Real news by Knowledge Workers on Nov 16, 2009
“Real news is what somebody is trying to hide from you. All the rest is just advertising.” – Lord Beaverbrook. Thanks to Gerry McCusker at PR disasters What is real news? : PR Disasters.
- Mainstream Media Antics by Diary of a Vegan on Nov 12, 2009
One of my big lessons over the past few years is never believe what you read in the mainstream media. Why? Because more often than not there’s an underlying reason why these outlets promote certain stories over others — and that reason usuall...
- Whither the weather? Well, it’s sort of averagely in-between, windbags say by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 2, 2009
The Sunday Star Times: A complete waste of space Down at the National Institute for Waffle and Astrology, chief executive John Morgan sits in a plush office counting his $130,000, 31% pay rise, while his under-employed colleagues at the cold front ar...
- The medium is the tedium: The depressive power of our regressive press by Grumpy Old Geezers on Oct 27, 2009
As technology made it easier to move type, the lazier the press became. Picture by SAX at Dreamstime.com Once upon a time, there was an ailing daily paper in England’s West Country. It had a circulation of 12,000, and hardly any journalists. A ruth...
- The thong is over, but the malady lingers on: It’s been a week of media boobs by Grumpy Old Geezers on Sep 25, 2009
You couldn’t make it up. In a week of non-stories, forensically examined by our frenzied media, Green Party list MP Sue Bradford – a minor but thoroughly unpopular member of a nondescript and powerless motley crew – inexplicably stole the headl...
- Miracle on Albert Street - HERALD TURNS INTO THE SUN!!! by Brian Edwards Media on Sep 20, 2009
A week or so back in ABSENCE OF SHOCK LEAVES READERS SHOCKED I suggested that our daily metropolitan newspapers were broadsheet in format but tabloid in content. I’m indebted to The Herald for so promptly providing me with incontrovertible e...
