Comedian Jonathan May-Bowles was yesterday sentenced to six weeks in jail for throwing a shaving-foam pie at Rupert Murdoch whilst the media tycoon was giving evidence at the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
Better known as “Jonnie Marbles”, May-Bowles was also ordered to pay £250 costs and a £15 victim fine after pleading guilty to [...]
I’ve been making a series of short films and a promo for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
The London session 20-22 November 2010 will focus on corporate complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Some very clever people will be there and it will most likely be accused of a) preaching to the converted, b) not having any [...]
On 10 November 2010, over 50,000 students and lecturers from across the United Kingdom marched in London against the coalition government’s plans to increase university fees.
The march eventually reached Millbank Tower – once the Labour party’s headquarters – now home to the Conservative party.
Some people managed to get to the roof. One person had [...]
Interesting perspective from Chommo’s own backyard. Goes into the ideas of how an institution like MIT could, on one hand, provide the brains to progress the freeing up of information and, on the other, be the same force that funds the brains to create new and more efficient ways of killing people.
Read here.
BSkyB has rejected a takeover bid from its sister company News Corp, the beast that owns News International. In the eyes of the general public, this media clustershag is commonly referred to as Murdoch. Specifically, its patriarch Rupert Murdoch. If a takeover became reality, what would the future of Sky’s television news be?
Learning Mandarin Chinese [...]
The problem with filling out so many application forms for funding, placements, new livers… are the questions you have to answer. How does one eke out money for old rope – or worse, how do you feign insightful replies in approximately 200 words?
Here are a couple questions I’ve had to answer recently…along with the answers.
Which [...]
Why? Libel. Apparently.
Instead of redrafting the Amnesty International press release and passing the words off as my own [really? that happens in the press?], here’s a link to the press release.
UPDATE: The ad is causing a bit of a stir in the FT newsroom. Emails are circulating amongst staffers, freelancers and management. In pre-Twitter [...]
Am adding this here as a place of pride. Like many other polenta-eating hacks, I watched Sir Trevor McDonald lick David Cameron’s face for an hour interview David Cameron on ITV1.
Seems I’ve narked a few true blues by suggesting that Tories at CCHQ were melting at having to shake hands with a black man. I’m [...]
Shortly after charges were dropped, I accepted a job as media coordinator for Merlin. They’re an emergency medical relief charity who responded to the Haiti earthquake by setting up a field hospital in what was a tennis court in one of Port au Prince’s worst hit areas, Delmas 33.
Part of my role was to spark [...]
Have just come back from India filming my first ever documentary (by filming, I mean shooting, producing, directing, presenting, editing, everything myself) on suicides, pesticides and fashion. Working title “Deadly White Gold”… same as the article I wrote for Who’s Jack this September.
At its height, up to 26 Indian cotton farmers a day were drinking [...]
