Monday, August 16th, 2010
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So, Rupert Murdoch is a nut-case, at least by Einstein’s definition.
Murdoch is planning to release a digital newspaper on tablet devices (such as the iPad) by the end of the year, this will be a paid/subscription type business model and it will be aimed towards the younger generation. For a fee, you will receive shortened down diluted news content with no analysis which can be found on thousands of blogs and news sites around the world for free. It sounds like a good deal, you should take it.
Of course, Murdoch has already attempted to get youths involved with news and it didn’t work out (even though it was free). Also, I hear the pay-walls he has put up around the Times and other news sites of his are doing very well.
I’m not saying that journalism isn’t worth paying for (it is), that subject is best left for another time, what I’m saying is that Murdoch doesn’t have a very firm grasp on the modern world (especially on technology); the old business techniques don’t always work these days.
Tags: Apple, iPad, Murdoch, News, Paywall, Rupert Murdoch, Tablet, Times
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Astonishingly, the Digital Economy Bill passed and it is a heavy punch to the face for democracy. I’ve touched on the bill before (Dan Bull notably made fun of it when it was first proposed) and I don’t feel the need to go over everything again.
How things have changed… Even on the 2nd of April, my MP, Mark Todd (a notable opponent of the bill) was sure that it wouldn’t go through immediately and doing so would be undemocratic and pretty much bat-shit insane.
Peter Mandelson has the music industry’s cock swirling around in his mouth and I hope the music and movie industry are very happy.
Tags: Britain, Digital Economy Bill, Fascist, Freedom, Labour, News, Politics
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
In the New Year, Gordon Brown is going to apologise for an often overlooked part of British history, one of the few disgraceful atrocities against human rights of the 20th century, the crimes involving compulsory child migration.
Up until only forty years ago (1930′s – 1970′s), children were secretly sent to former British colonies. Parents didn’t know about it until it was too late and children were falsely told that their parents were dead and that they were going to live a more ‘abundant’ life in Australia (or Canada). They were then shipped off to live in orphanages or in-care in another country, where many of them were under educated, suffered physical & sexual abuse and made to work long days as labourers.
Gordon Brown is expected to apologise for the past governments failings and crimes against humanity, in the new year, after ongoing discussions and research with those affected. Australia is also due, on Monday, to apologise for the mistreatment and abuse that British migrants suffered.
(Source)
Tags: Child, Gordon Brown, Migrants, News, Politics, Rights, UK
Posted in Culture |
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Amongst Rupert “Still-Alive” Murdoch’s greedy, absent-minded and lunatic plans to charge people to view his poor quality biased drivel (aka ‘news’) on all of the websites he owns (The Sun, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox etc), he now also plans to block search indexing for his sites, to encourage people to pay for his news.
Needless to say, in the age of information, this is greedy, monopolistic, fuck-headed and probably wont work. He called Google a parasite and questioned the validity of ‘Fair Use’ (an ideology that keeps free websites such as Wikipedia going). He seems to want to defend news as intellectual property, but of course liberal media such as The Guardian won’t follow the trend.
I don’t need to point out the obvious, such as the irony in Rupert Murdoch calling Google a parasite.
Look on the bright side, now you wont have to avoid News Corp’s bile, Murdoch will have done that bit for you.
Now to leave you with some comments made on The Guardian article:
“Excluding yourself from the single largest source of web traffic? What could possibly go wrong with that plan?”
“So we are going to lose free access to the Sun, Fox News and The Times…well that is a tragedy for the ‘Fair and Balanced’ media.”
“It is a terrible idea. I hope he goes through with it.”
“We really need the top-level journalism that Murdoch provides. After all, they did such a great job speaking truth to power and questioning authority with the Iraq war.”
Tags: Fox, News, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch
Posted in Culture |
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The Daily Mails remarkably consistent exercise in supreme idiocy has landed itself all over Twitter again. It makes me wonder what qualifications, if any, you need to write for the Daily Mail? A GSCE at grade D in English and a degree in being a cunt?
The British drug advisor, Professor David Nutt, was fired which prompted The Daily Fail to lash out. A lot of things piss the Daily Mail off, such as homosexuals, gamers and now scientists.
The Daily Drivel kindly called scientists arrogant gods of certainty, before reminding readers that Hitler also believed in science as the only answer. The article also, shockingly and without tact, included an image of Hitler before it was removed.
“I am not suggesting that any British scientists are currently conducting experiments comparable to those which were allowed in Nazi Germany or in Soviet Russia. But I see the same habit of mind at work in Professor Nutt and his colleagues as made those mad scientists of the 20th century think they were above the moral law which governs the rest of us mortals.”
It amazes me that The Daily Mail still try to hold the moral ground on national issues and yet still manage to publish tasteless, barbaric and downright moronic material such as this.
Wasn’t Hitler also a christian? Damn them evil christians.
P.S. I noticed the subheading of ‘Irrationality’ on their article, quite ironic.
Tags: Daily Mail, Nazi, News, Politics, Science
Posted in Culture |
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Student nurses are being advised, subtly, not to do anything that may jeopardise their future careers by doing what students do best during freshers week; being wild.
So drunken vomit-ridden parties with casual nudity and lack of sexual moral code are probably going to be a big ‘no’ then.
Then again, in the age of high speed, on-demand and freely available information and communication, where anything can be available for the entire world to see in just seconds; maybe this is some advice that a lot more people should be taking.
Employers are increasingly becoming technology-savvy and checking social networking sites is becoming incredibly widespread and common. Researching an internet user (which is almost everyone) is as simple as typing a name into a search box. Privacy is hard to maintain these days, even if you actively enforce it.
Some of you won’t care, whilst some of you will be scrambling to delete those incriminating images of you performing unexplainable acts to an inanimate object and removing status messages about how your lecturer is a cunt of epic proportions. But for better or worse, creepy people can now stalk you much easier than before. Sleep well.
Tags: Freshers, News, Nurses, Students
Posted in Culture |
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
It has been embarrassingly (but not unbelievably) revealed that the author of the Harry Potter series of books, J.K. Rowling was allegedly denied a top US honour (Presidential Medal of Freedom) because members of the Bush administration believed she promoted sorcery. Priceless.
Emphasis must be applied to the term ‘Bush administration’ here, which I can safely say explains (though doesn’t excuse) the situation.
It should also be noted that the Presidential Medal of Freedom actually exists which, when you assume that freedom is a liberal ideology and the Bush administration was very conservative, is an interesting observation.
Of course, the Bush administration was so conservative that they apparently had the belief system of the medieval era. I wouldn’t be too amazed if President ‘Let’s-Invade-Iraqistan’ Bush himself, sent a warrant out, requesting the burning of Rowling at the stake for being a witch.
Tags: News, Politics
Posted in Culture |
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Originally written: April 4th 2009
That’s right, it is one of a few buzz-words created by the fuckwit modern media which has helped breed an economical decline, nay, give it a massive push into oblivion. I’m not Robert Peston but it seems to me that the ‘R-word’ is at least 99% responsible for causing the current financial disaster by exacerbating a small problem with ridiculous sayings which has led every local pub cunt to now use the phrase “Credit Crunch”.
And this lexical mindfuck is intimately linked with the notion of a “Broken Britain”? Now correct me if I’m wrong but the last time I checked the country was still in once piece. The only thing broken being the twisted, corrupt, self perpetuating declining morals of the equally ignorant and contradictory anus holes that squander within their own pool of idiocy (surely not the media).
Journalists are more often than not just repeating the spiel given to them by PR gurus and researchers whilst trying to pass it off as their more “intelligent” take on the news that somehow lifts it out of the banality of pointing at something and shouting “Duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh”, What this leads to is a repeated irate keyboard mashing session, the only joy of which is that their smug capitalist bangings may hopefully damage their arrogant little faces. However it appears that they haven’t quite mastered the art of keyboard mashing and as a result occasionally resort to copy and paste mouse clicking from ‘Heat’ magazine into a televised format (or whatever format you receive it in).
The fact is, the news isn’t the news anymore it is a cesspit of putrid finger pointing, hypocrisy and public opinion. The media shouldn’t be there to repeat public opinion, it should provide the news with whatever political slant their paper has and not have their views dragged in by the ignorant, uninformed public. Yet now the public are the ones that fuel the media, they are the sheep, they lap up the news and digest it as if it was a cock being fed to Paris Hilton; swallowed whole.
And so we have it; the media caused the recession and we happily went along with it by reading their stories and cramming their new languages down the necks of all of our friends and families in every single passing conversation. Which is why I’ll personally defecate on the bed pillows of anyone who mentions the ‘R-word’ from this day forward.
Tags: Credit Crunch, Media, News, Recession
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