Media

I’ve just been reading the coverage of the woeful Italy-Spain game over at Corriere dello Sport, and not for the first time I’ve come across a feature that makes me wonder what they put in the water of Italian media companies. Under the title “Beauties on the sidelines”

From the Daily Telegraph’s article on the Naked Bike Ride in Brighton today: Others stuck to underwear and many just kept to the theme as they cycled the streets, catching the attention of peasants. Download PDF

The IPPR have just published a report saying that immigrants from the new member states are going home – and that many never intended to stay long-term. Checking out the Daily Mail to see what their spin on the story was (they didn’t mention it), I saw this headline that

Long retrospective on the first issue of Wired at Fimoculous.com. I remember buying Wired, back when I was a wide-eyed undergrad in the chilly fens and it was being imported. Probably not 1.1, but not too long after. And then I became a dotcom millionaire. Kinda.

Why movies should get over Trajan, at Goodie Bag.

Interesting debate going on at Roy Greenslade’s blog, where an article by Greenslade on Andrew Gilligan’s media feud with Ken Livingstone has prompted Gilligan himself to turn up in the comments section and defend himself. I have to say, whatever the facts of the dispute (which are arcane)

Here, via Fistful of Euros.

I really hope the staff at the Daily Mail appreciated the irony of their front page today. For those who haven’t seen it, the screaming headline is “Kill her! Kill her!” A very Mail sentiment, but instead of heading an article about a single mother, a female immigrant or