This is a trailer of a feature-length animation film to be made with the aim to arouse inspiration, courage and hope in the hearts of people all over the world. The film is about Dr. Marcel Junod who as field delegate of ICRC, struggled against hardships and saved the lives of many people regardless of their race or nationality through Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War and WWII.
It sounds like a death caused by toxic suffocation while having to watch Bill O’Reilly on loop. And that’s what the word is, the making of a radio or TV channel into a clone of Fox News. The word is mentioned in the Sky News video below as Sky announces £1.65bn profits this week.
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So does Sky News wannabe a Fox clone? Polly Toynbee in The Guardian knows that Kelvin MacKenzie thinks so.
Hardly noticed, something else is stirring in the Murdoch undergrowth. Last week in the Sun Kelvin MacKenzie let the cat out of the bag. Not a domestic cat, but something feral. “In a few weeks’ time I expect my colleague and friend Jon Gaunt to win a major victory in the high court which will change the radio and TV landscape.” It will, he says, have far-reaching consequences “with broadcasters allowed to express views for the first time”. “They might at last be able to make money out of news (at the moment they lose a fortune), just like Fox so successfully does in the United States.” So that’s the plan, just like Fox.
but Gaunt went on to lose his case.
George Eaton – 13 July The New Statesman rolling blog
Ofcom merely ruled that Gaunt’s description of Councillor Michael Stark, who defended the local authority’s decision to ban smokers from becoming foster parents, as a “Nazi”, a “health Nazi” and an “ignorant pig” was offensive and unjustified.
But the Gaunt ruling is not just a defeat for the right-wing blowhard, it also a blow against the “Foxification” of UK news. Several tabloid journalists expressed the hope that a victory for Gaunt would clear the way for a more aggressive, opinionated form of broadcasting.
So there you have it – they wannabe a Fox but they are not allowed so they don’t wannabe a Fox. Now who backed who for the election? Who will change the law ever so slightly? Remember they can’t make money if they can’t call councillors Nazi’s and sure there are jobs at stake if we forget the £1.65bn figure for more than a moment.
Did you ever hear SunTalk Radio? I have, what a load of fun it was, I happened upon it on the run in to the world cup. It seems to have been a fickle business plan of news international’s, because days after Gaunt lost his court appeal the station has shut up shop.
Colin Heilbut of editorsweblog.org reported on July 16th
News International has made the following statement on the matter: “News International can confirm that SunTalk has closed. This was a business decision taken as part of an ongoing review of costs and strategy to focus on core operations.”
The Guardian recently reported that The Sun was set to take SunTalk on to a digital radio platform. News International sources had dismissed that story as “speculation”.
for old times sake here is SunTalk interview with UKIP
Are we becoming more used to seeing death on our screens? I was in work on the day on the twin towers attack, with a TV PC card I watched it all unfold, we left the office and went to the TV room to watch it on larger screen and we re lived the news as it happened on the OPEN mailing list. I remember watching the Hillsborough disaster unfold as I was watching the match, and felling nothing but helpless to the situation. As the lean forward age of Youtube becomes TV in the cloud, will TV violence exceed it current levels? Yes, and I think even if it does that its impact will be no greater than it is now, we adapt.
Unlike the contacts with real death in the past, media deaths generally do not generate moral and social questions. Instead, according to media critics, we become desensitized to death. Publicized boxscores of holiday fatalities on the nation’s roads and death counts from accidents, wars, or natural calamities become as meaningful as sports statistics. Easy claims then can be made that violence saturated media can result in real life violence.
In the case of the war in Vietnam, witnessing the violence of the war on their TV screens appears not to have resulted in an increase of violence in American society, but rather a strong reaction against it. Some researchers argue that screen violence may actually help people to release their aggression and anger in a harmless way. The Vietnam war case is not conclusive as there was many americans involved, much as in the the Twin Towers Tragedy (3T). Some research indicates that our reaction to the media is more complex than this. We each have different experience, understanding and attitudes, which effect the way we react to media violence.
if pixels could vote they would abolish airbrushing. a pre election campaign of the UK Lib Dem party is making its way to policy.
from campaignlive.co.uk
Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, is to host a summit with media and fashion industry executives in the autumn, to tackle the issue of airbrushing in magazines and advertising campaigns.
In her blog, Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has said that the people involved in the campaign have “no desire” to impose regulation or restriction on advertisers, but, in the first instance, will be looking to work with the industries involved on a voluntary basis.
In the autumn, Featherstone will host a round table discussion that will include celebrity stylist Gok Wan, psychotherapist and writer, Susie Orbach, and Mumsnet representatives, as well as magazine editors and advertisers.
but sometimes airbrushing back fires.
Aussie singer Gabriella Cilmi says she won’t be modelling for men’s magazines again after FHM gave her a digital boost in the chest department. The 18-year-old ‘Sweet About Me‘ singer posed for a series of topless and lingerie shots in UK FHM’s May 2010 issue.
“I think I’m happy with about three of those shots, and I would very happily use some of them as the front cover for my record, but there are some in there that I look at them and I don’t see how they related to me in any way,” Gabriella told AAP.
“They’ve given me bigger boobs than I have anyway. So, I guess you get like a free boob job or something. I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean.
“I look at them and I laugh at them, because I know that they’re not very representative of me, and who I am as a person, and what my music’s about.”
and the makers of the video are rightchange.com a conservative organization dedicated to helping Americans see through the haze of politicians’ “spin”. Seems they like to reuse the style of Michael Moore but the voice over just isn’t as compelling when it isn’t Bush’s voice.
