Saw this over on Caribbean Free Radio - seems a Telegraph journalist got caught red handed plagerising (typos and all)…her excuse wasnt the smartest either…AND the telegraph editors seem uninterested by the whole thing…
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"How can Fox News be so conservative when the Fox Network keeps airing raunchy shows?"
Published May 22, 2007 Media , Neoliberalism , Video 0 Comments
“You have a person you can identify as someone who is creating racial harm and that’s a legitimate reaction,” Hutchinson said. “But I do believe that over time if that’s the only thing that gets this intense reaction, then we’re reinforcing this notion that that’s all that racism is.”
“We never get at … broader inequality like poverty. Why is poverty racialized? Why are people of color in schools that are underfunded? We never tackle those bigger issues.”
Grand Theft Auto
Published March 30, 2007 Computers , Media , Modernity , Neoliberalism , Network society 0 Commentsinteresting article about the boys behind grand theft auto and the billion dollar computer game industry
“That’s where Donovan and the Housers came in. The Londoners had attitude, style, and what Dan Houser later called a “culturally relevant, detail-obsessed approach” to game-making. They moved their core team to New York and assumed the name Rockstar Games. (The group of coders and designers in Scotland was eventually acquired by Take-Two and renamed Rockstar North.) The name hinted at their ambitions. “We admired record labels, obviously, and clothing companies, which were obsessed with details and with an integrity between design, product, and marketing,” Dan told the Design Museum of London in 2003. Rockstar wouldn’t just sell games — it would sell a lifestyle.”
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