The internet used to be simultaneously the MOST EXCITING THING EVAAR and a bit rubbish. MTV News reports in what the uploader of the video says is 1995, but we think is probably actually 1996....
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Friday, 22 July 2011
The BrokenTV Continued Existence Appeal 2011
[A BLACK SCREEN. SLOWLY, A MONOCHROME EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE BROKENTV OFFICE FILLS THE SCREEN. THE MELLIFLUOUS TONES OF JOANNA LUMLEY POLITELY INTRODUCE THEMSELVES TO YOUR EARS OVER A DELICATELY CHOSEN TRACK FROM A JOHANN JOHANNSSON ALBUM.]
LUMLEY: The offices of BrokenTV,...
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Hello Vegetables! (Brilliant YouTube Thing of the Week)
You’ve gotsta love Belgian noise scientists Soulwax. Not only do they make loads of astonishingly good what we still call ‘mixtapes’, commendably sticking with the whole mash-up thing a decade after it stopped being fashionable, but they’ve made a free iWhatever app allowing you to download or listen to them all. You can also listen to them over the...
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
“Does anyone remember the News of the World?”
You know when you hear something really good, and think “I am SO putting that on YouTube so more people can hear it”, but then realise lots of other people have had the same idea so you don’t need to bother doing it? A marvellous monologue from John Finnemore, covering events of the News of the World phonehacking story on last week’s The Now Show....
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Look-i(Pho)n(e): A Review of the ITV Player iPhone App
After a week of banging on about a now-defunct newspaper (just before it relaunches with a new name but without several dozen salaried employees who hadn’t stopped to think why working for a company where union membership is forbidden might be a bad idea), back to telly stuff....
Thursday, 7 July 2011
News of the World to close
…And that’s the end of that chapter. Except, of course, it isn’t. Unless Murdoch is going to relaunch Today as a Sunday-only newspaper, it’s pretty clear what is about to happen. We’ll be surprised if there’s even a gap between the News of the World closing and a replacement...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Boycott the News of the World: A Cut-Out-and-Give-Away Guide
[UPDATE 7pm WEDS 6th JULY: The flyer and all uploads now updated to include the latest news. If you downloaded it before, you might want to nab the latest version as well. Many thanks to everyone who’s mentioned the flyer on Twitter, Facebook, various web forums and the Guardian...
Monday, 4 July 2011
A News of the World employee hacks into the mobile phone voicemail of missing schoolgirl. Is that newsworthy or not?
So, The Guardian reports creditable claims that an employee from the News of the World hacked into, and deleted messages from, the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002, leading to false hope for her parents that she was still alive, and misleading the police...
When TV Critics Don’t Even Watch The Show They’re Reviewing
Move over The Guardian’s Sam Wollaston, there’s a new contender in town for “Britain’s most clueless television critic”. It’s the endlessly thumpable Kevin O’Sullivan of the Sunday Mirror, who it seems really wanted to write a piece slagging off ITV’s new weekend output, and...
