Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Nora Leggs,
The avian equivalent of a love handle?
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I am in favour of bringing back words such as higgledy-piggledy and jeepers
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Monetise (for the decade). Such a horrible word.
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I take your point, Craig, but what I would be looking for is a mechanism which makes the media more accountable for its choices and actions, rather than falling back on the flaccid and often-erroneous excuse of 'it's what the people want to see or hear'. Some of those journalists (and commentators) in the mainstream media claim to be speaking on behalf of 'ordinary people', but in their hearts they really have a deep contempt for their readers/viewers.
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Marking their own homework Nice!
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The New Zealand Press Council? Pretty much a toothless, mangy old cat.
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My understanding is that Levenson is calling for an extension of the brief of Ofcom, which has generally been a good element in British broadcasting. Press freedom is all well and good but, to date, it has primarily been freedom to distort, to create false alarms and moral panics, to manipulate politicians, to serve the venal interests of bastards like Murdoch. I am all for reigning in such 'freedoms'.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thanks, Chris, Useful to know when I do it again next year.
We should share teaching experiences some day. I have quite a number of Chinese students each year and they provide interesting challenges.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Live, in reply to Danielle,
The Pretty Things?
Maybe I should reconsider Elvis C (especially if he plays tracks from Should I Be Cruel?) but just the thought of mingling with a bunch of chardonnay-swilling yahoos! -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thanks for this, Chris. Would it explain some of the difficulties I had with some of my Chinese students who returned home once lectures were done in October? They were asked to create a blog, developing a hypothesis around a media issue and then construct an argument using links to six research items. Some of them left this really late and I had great difficulties in accessing their sites, which should have responded to a personal invitation. In the end, I could access most sites (set up under blogger) but they couldn't.