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Category Archives: Media
Notebook
These were the days when announcers wore dinner jackets in the evenings, and he explains this practice: “In the evening most of the people of our sort did change into dinner jackets, if they weren’t wearing white ties and going … Continue reading
Posted in Class, Media, Notebook, World War 2
Tagged BBC, dinner jackets, Nazis, nightingale, Third Programme
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On the bench
For the last few days I’ve been reading “Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories”, a biography of sorts of one of the most celebrated defence lawyers of the last century. (He’s still alive, and turned 102 this year.) One chapter is devoted … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Media
Tagged DH Lawrence, Jeremy Hutchinson, Lady Chatterley Trial, Penguin Books, Richard Hoggart
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Notebook
We don’t know yet what the televising of the conventions will do to American politics, to elections, to the convention system itself. Some of us fear what one good demagogue with a fine voice and a rousing profile might do … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Technology, TV, US politics
Tagged Alistair Cooke, Cinerama, demagogues, Edmund Burke, Hitler, political conventions
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New prime minister, old Labour
Another century, another world. HT @MirrorStyleGuide
Posted in History, Media, World War 2
Tagged Clement Attlee, Labour Party, World War Two
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Pro tip
“You can’t write about people unless you know what’s on their mantlepiece.” Journalist and mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace on today’s Desert Island Discs.
Posted in Journalism, Literature, Media
Tagged Desert Island Discs, Marjorie Wallace
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When philosophers fight
This is, of course, what happens when you confuse “the world” with “possible world”. A classic face-off in The NY Review of Books. [Via @aoscott]
The future of journalism?
Are BuzzFeed, Vox and the other digital newcomers really as innovative as we like to think? Michael Massing, continuing his NYRB series on new media, is unconvinced: When one considers the amount of resources that the sites I’ve mentioned have … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Media
Tagged Buzzfeed, digital journalism, Michael Massing, New York Review of Books
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Notebook
News in the papers of poor Norman Mailer’s breakdown. One headline said, “Author Mailer Stabs Wife.” Don misread this as, “Arthur Miller Stabs Wife,” and said to himself, “Why don’t they mention Marilyn Monroe?” We agreed that, if it had … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Media, Notebook
Tagged Arthur Miller, Christopher Isherwood, Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer
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Cajoling
Is political advertising as effective as we like to think? Sam Delaney’s new book argues that the power of spin is over-rated. Dominic Sandbrook [£] agrees:
Posted in Media, Politics, UK politics
Tagged advertising, David Cameron, Dominic Sandbrook, Sam Delaney, spin
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Before comments sections
Stumbled across this yesterday. An HM Bateman cartoon from 1922.