Posted in Media on Oct 12th, 2011 No Comments »
[From Wikipedia]
Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics.
Albert identifies himself […]
Posted in TV, Media on Aug 18th, 2011 12 Comments »
Flicking over to TV3 last night, and watching Declan Ganley getting brown-nosed by a four-fifths of a panel that included a former employee of his in Libertas - his professional relationship with Kevin O’Connell went unannounced of course.
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Banks, Media on Apr 10th, 2011 1 Comment »
We know what the Irish banks’ bad loans are. They’re going to be about one per cent of their loan books.
I don’t see the figures or the conditions that would suggest to me that this is a Swedish situation.” (Brendan Keenan, 30 September 2008)
Posted in Media, Ireland on Apr 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
[All primary advertising revenue figures taken from National Newspapers of Ireland. House price stats from the CSO].
Interesting correlation between house prices and newspaper advertising revenue.
It’s something always talked about - how much newspapers relied on the housing bubble for income.
First of all, newspaper advertising revenue from 1984 to 2010, adjusted for inflation (2010 […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Death of a Tiger, Film on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Used to be most everybody had a part in the film and you can still find remote areas where a whole village is on set. Nice to see but it won’t do you much good. Well he was dipping into the till. Just looks at me and says ‘account sheets are empty many […]
Posted in Media on Mar 4th, 2010 5 Comments »
I hate the way ‘broadsheet’ or ‘quality’ papers have started to pimp corporate funded popular music acts that might appeal to their middle-aged readers who still imagine that they’re down with the kids coz they download the albums they read about in their favourite ‘broadsheet’ or ‘quality’ newspapers.
I have absolutely no interest in the […]
Posted in Media on Feb 11th, 2010 6 Comments »
Adam Curtis did a short film for Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, which I thought was pretty good.
Posted in The Wire, TV on Feb 6th, 2010 No Comments »
There is a theory that all TV takes place within the mind of Tommy Westphall.
The idea is that characters (as opposed to simply actors) cross-over from different shows, reappearing and disappearing as thoughts in Tommy’s head.
There is a map of this universe, available here.
For my own small part, here’s a video showing the […]
Posted in TV, Media on Oct 7th, 2009 11 Comments »
Okay, I don’t have any particular insight into the current situation, what with John O’Donoghue resigning, and the Green’s saying they wouldn’t have supported him anyway, and the special Green Party convention on Saturday which is supposed to signal whether or not they will stay in Government following an unsatisfactory outcome of the negotiations for […]
Posted in Zombies, Film, TV, Media on Aug 26th, 2009 6 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but for the past couple of weeks and perhaps for longer, zombies have been popping up everywhere. Not literally, of course. Zombies don’t exist. They are creatures from popular culture created to scare ourselves by praying on our deepest fears - not only the fear of death itself, but also […]
