mediaboy finally returns exhausted from a week of mediabollocks. Plus ca change, mes amis, plus ca change. Who would have predicted more scandal chez Amy Winehouse, acres of clichéd coverage of the FA Cup and revelation upon revelation about sleazy Members of Parliament?
Amy Winehouse enjoys a party. She is a musician. She is young. She is rich. She needs to be careful about her friends. Shame on whoever it was sold that tape to mediaboy's favourite tabloid. Okay, they need to sell papers and all that, but please change the record and find something else to write about. mediaboy seriously doubts that these journalists have Amy's best interests at heart and sincerely hopes Amy doesn't read comics.
mediaboy loves and despairs of the BBC, probably not the most original attitude to take towards the envy of the free world. Originality is not, however, a concept likely to trouble the sports department at the BBC or even the news department when covering sport. Hype and cliché flooded our screens and airways (and let's face it, our press may have been guilty here too) during the coverage of the latest round of FA Cup matches. Congratulations to anyone who used the phrases "magic of the cup", "reports of the death of the FA Cup are very much premature", "humbled the mighty Liverpool", "this was their cup final" etcetera etcetera. Prizes in the next round for any journalist who manages to say something original. mediaboy is not, (he never does) holding his breath.
Naughty boys and girls. No, not the nations out-of-control youth (copyright Daily Mail), but our elected representatives in the big house on the Thames. These dedicated, selfless souls who give up their every minute to serve the people (yes, you, mediaboy, all of us, they work for all of us) need not abide by normal accepted working practices, or even it seems, dare mediaboy say it, the law. Not only can they make honest and genuine mistakes when it comes to accounting for donations without fear of legal redress, their spouses and offspring may also do so.
mediaboy dropped in on Steve Wright in the afternoon on Radio 2 recently. WTF? Apparently Mr. Wright just went away for a bit during the 90s and then resumed the same ole same old hoping no one would notice. He's dropped Mr. Angry and there's no camp hairdresser any more, but those Factoids smell suspiciously like the 1980s. Apparently the public wants want the public gets, or something like that.
On the plus side
mediaboy recommends a think piece (and the ensuing debate, or at least some of it) from Madeleine Bunting at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2248006,00.html and regrets missing Alex James on Panorama. mediaboy also recommends A Change is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke. Beauty, poetry and revolution rolled into a sweet, sweet song.
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