Peter Wilby writes insightfully in today’s Media Guardian on the recent skirmish in the Caucasus between Georgia and Russia, arguing that the former Soviet Republic trounced Russia in the PR war. According to Wilby, Georgia mobilised its communications officers to bombard world press offices with reports which were guaranteed to “trigger western media interest”, utilising [...]
Blade receives the following press release: From today, Monday the 18th of August the multi award winning, dedicated property television channel Real Estate TV (RETV) is moving to a new home on the SKY platform. Usually to be found entertaining and informing the property hungry public on SKY channels 273 and 274, RETV is moving [...]
The FT carried a lengthy piece in its weekend magazine on pre-nuptial agreements, with the paper’s chief feature writer, Richard Tomkins, arguing that pre-nups actually encourage marriage rather than undermine it. Blade isn’t so sure. He recalls the following, somewhat satirical take on pre-nups from the Independent on Sunday, and fears that even though it [...]
Here’s a great piece from Atlantic.com with a headline which goes straight to the point: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The writer, Nicholas Carr, argues persuasively that the internet is inimical to sustained intellectual thought and, more specifically, reading lengthy prose. Here is a key paragraph from his provocative article: For me, as for others, [...]
Blade has just returned from a pleasant lunch party to attend to his offspring. He finds the pair of them (two boys, aged 13 and 10) watching TV, playing World of Warcraft, emailing their friends and doing whatever it is that people do when they go on Bebo, all at the same time. It would [...]
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).