Tag: media

anti-social networking

What’s the good of having a personal blog if you can’t use it occasionally for a personal rant? Today is one of those occasions.

Yesterday the subject line of an email urged me to PASS IT ON; the content of the message was simply:

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP IS AN OXYMORON

I loathe the impersonalisation of communications on the web. If someone wants to tell me that they’d like to keep in closer touch, I’d like to see something in the message indicating that it was intended for me personally.
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on the day of the general strike

 
 
 
 
 
 
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of gender and generalities

There’s a general strike planned in Spain for this coming Wednesday and this advert appears in El Público today:

IU general strike advert

The call to action comes from the Izquierda Unida, the main left wing party in Spain (as opposed to the PSOE – the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party – currently in power and not half as left wing as the name might lead you to expect).

Whatever my sympathies might be for the left, and for those who intend to strike, I object to the phrase nosotras y nosotros.
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the BBC – the voice of reason?

Apparently not, if the title of this web page is anything to go by:

BBC news - Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English

Yes, it is a page from the BBC website and it is entitled:

BBC News – Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English.

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his ‘n’ yours

I think I’ve been insulted. I went down to buy the paper in the local shop this morning and bought The Observer and the Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special, as shown in the photo.

Newspaper & magazine
Yes, it’s true, I read women’s magazine fiction. It’s light – actual weight-wise, not simply ‘light reading’, it comes in a disposable format, and it’s particularly suitable for travel reading. (I also like to know what’s being published these days, in case I feel inspired to turn my hand to fiction.)

But it’s not the only thing I read.
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