The Blood is The Life 03-12-2012
Monday, December 3rd, 2012 09:00 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_s_b- Cicero's Songs: Making the same mistake twice
"I believe that the British Press is a major contributor to the current national crisis in Britain. The idea that these corporate entities, a large number of which are foreign owned, are the only thing keeping the British political world free of corruption is laughable. I do believe the public has a right to know. I do not think that protests by the Press we are seeing now are about the principle of right to know, I think they are about the far more limited principle of profit. I do not think that Leveson addressed the issue of the boundaries of the public domain- either a privacy law or a law on the free press. Most of all, I am sad and angry to see how easy it is for the corporate press to continue to manipulate the voters based on a false agenda."
- UK Polling Report
"people interpret political events through the prism of their pre-existing political views. Hence people tend to support legal underpinning for media regulation, but when current Conservative voters see David Cameron opposing this and Ed Miliband supporting it they see David Cameron acting out of principle and Ed Miliband being opportunistic, when Labour supporters see the same thing they see Ed Miliband acting to protect the victims of press intrusion while David Cameron sucks up to the newspapers. Events are as likely to reinforce existing political views as change them."
- Representation of women's sport
- 13 year old gives up his iPod for a Walkman
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
- IoS Christmas Appeal: Patrick Stewart - 'I knew the exact moment to rush in and stop him hitting her' - Profiles - People - The Independent
"The work I do with and for Refuge is for my mother, because I could not do it for her then," Stewart says. "She had nowhere to go and Refuge, had it existed, would have given her an option or choice."
- News from Nancy: Why I'm Critical of Foodbanks
Interesting polemic
- Living with HIV just got harder
- Science and our economy: the (blue) sky's the limit
- The Hawkeye Initiative
My new favourite tumblr :)
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Date: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 02:37 pm (UTC)- Oh, OK, it was published in 2009. This makes me feel better than it should.
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Date: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 04:00 pm (UTC)