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I am off on holidy for a little over two weeks. Not anywhere hot or dusty like Minority Thought though. Let's just say there's more chance of me meeting Scott Pilgrim where I'm going. I plan to blog a bit more when I get back, and there'll be one or two new regular features, I think. I won't be cutting down on the bum jokes though. Relax, bumface.
While I am gone, I might as well nick Minority Thought's idea and give you a list of other media watchy type blogs to pay attention to - although it appears to be media watchy blog holiday season at the minute with me, Anton Vowl and Primly Stable all being away. In different places, I think.
Angry Mob On Twitter as @uponnothing | Atomic Spin On Twitter as @atomic_spin |
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Enemies of Reason On Twitter as @antonvowl | exclarotive On Twitter as @exclarotive |
Express Watch On Twitter as @expresswatch | Mail Watch On Twitter as @mailwatch |
No Sleep 'Til Brooklands On Twitter as @RopesToInfinity | only that in you Not on Twitter |
Press Not Sorry On Twitter as @press_not_sorry | Primly Stable On Twitter as @primlystable |
Roy Greenslade's Blog On Twitter as @GreensladeR | Tabloid Watch On Twitter as @tabloidwatch |
Something that never fails to amuse me in a good 'PC Gone Mad' story is the idea that if an organisation produces guidelines for their staff, they've banned everyone from doing the thing the guidelines advise against.
'Sense of humour failure: Council slaps ban on mother-in-law jokes for being 'offensively sexist'' said the Mail earlier today, while the Telegraph went with 'Council outlaws mother-in-law jokes' and the Star bellowed 'MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKES: BARNET COUNCIL IMPOSES BAN'. All cobblers, of course. Barnet Council themselves said:
"Barnet council does not have a policy on mother-in-law jokes.
"There is no booklet and no ban on mother-in-law jokes.
"Our advice to staff is that they should be polite and avoid giving offence to any member of the public."
Edmund Standing has produced a report, 'Debunking the 'Islamisation' myth', which is well worth a look.
Now, I might have problems with some areas of the report (like cousin intermarriage and congenital birth defects, and perhaps the overall tone) but I won't be going into those here. Of more interest to this blog is section headlined 'The myth of Muslim power in Britain is largely fuelled by sensationalist and inaccurate media reports'.
Slim pickings around these parts recently, for which I apologise.
A few things contributing, but one of the main ones is the demoralising spectacle of the News of the World phone hacking scandal diminishing back into obscurity, looking less and less likely to actually go anywhere as time goes by. The ludicrousness of trusting the police to investigate a case in which they themselves have been accused of previously pursuing without due vigour has been exposed with witnesses threatened with being treated like suspects, thus successfully discouraging anyone from coming forward. Job done.
You might not have noticed because most of the British press seems curiously reluctant to cover it, but earlier in the week, the New York Times produced some new evidence that the Conservative party's chief spin doctor Andy Coulson knew much more about the phone hacking scandal of 2006 than he was letting on. Maybe they were too busy covering allegations regarding William Hague's sexuality, and his emotional revelations about not being gay that came out at the same time, handily and totally coincidentally for the Conservatives' spin doctor. Ahem.
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