Clearly it isn’t only in the West that contempt is shown towards consumers and viewers. Keep your eye on the scissors in this Russian shopping channel demo and note how the sharpened scissors are swapped for a completely different pair. Of course, it could be argued that if you’re daft enough not to notice, you [...]
France’s greatest living thinker, Bernard-Henri Lévy is looking about as great a brain as Ricky Gervais’ podcasting tame idiot Karl Pilkington. In his new book On War in Philosophy, he quotes extensively from the lesser-known philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul. Attacking Immanuel Kant as being a “fake” and “raving mad”, Lévy frequently refers to Botul’s great work [...]
FOOD NETWORK ADMITS “WHITE HOUSE” PRODUCE WASN’T FROM MICHELLE’S GARDEN
America’s Food Network had a hit on its hands with a special two-hour edition of “Iron Chef America”. Its top chefs met Michelle Obama in her White House garden where she did her bit about how people ought to eat healthily. The chefs then gathered produce [...]
IS GOOGLE CENSORING ITSELF WHEN IT COMES TO ISLAM?On January 5th, thenextweb.com noticed some odd behaviour with Google when you type in search suggestions for various religions. Type in “Christianity is”, for instance, and Google autofills with a few ideas for things it thinks you might be hunting for. “Christianity is a lie”, for instance, [...]
NOT ENOUGH “FRIENDS” ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER? WHY NOT BUY SOME MORE?
One of the Oxford University Press’s words of 2009 was “defriend”, coined to explain somebody jettisoning a Facebook “friend”. For many people, however, that’s the opposite of what they want. Feeling lonely and without enough friends on Twitter or Facebook, more and more people [...]
A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsCouncil are high on many people’s hate lists. They’re happy to take our money but rather less happy to provide us with the corresponding services. Thanet Council deserve special mention for their “recycling” services after a Margate resident videoed dustmen [...]
Van Morrison’s website hacked. World’s press yet again fail to check the story
“Van Morrison to be a father again at 64″ trumpeted the headlines earlier this week, surprising many. The most surprised of all was Van Morrison himself. The story resulted from an announcement on his website:
“Gigi (Lee) and Van Morrison are proud to announce [...]
American celebrity website left red-faced after photo showing Senator John F. Kennedy on yacht surrounded by naked women turns out to be a forgery.
TMZ.com is an American celebrity news website whose many scoops include breaking news of the deaths of Michael Jackson and Brittany Murphy. One of the world’s busiest and most successful websites, its [...]
A TV show in Australia called Hungry Beast decided to see just how assiduously their nation’s press checked the gibberish, spin and self-promotion that comprises most press releases before reporting them. They invented a body called The Levitt Institute to make “nation wide studies of the Australian sociological character”
The Levitt Institute’s first report was, [...]
A documentary team from Norway’s TV2 channel, the country’s largest commercial broadcaster, went to Niger to make a film about the aid that flooded into the country in the wake of BBC TV reports about a famine there.
The odd thing was that they couldn’t find anyone there who knew anything about the famine. There was [...]
When we wrote about various TV shows deceiving viewers in Complete and Utter Zebu, we assumed that we were writing about something that was history. Programme after programme had been found to have faked footage and, being found out, the TV companies apologised and said it would never happen again. Indeed, the BBC ended up [...]
If you haven’t already seen this, take a peek at the intriguing difference you get googling “Tiananmen Square Protest” for images in the UK and in China.
Click on the image to see it more clearly.
Those people who maintain that Elvis Presley might not have died in 1977 after all would appear to be vindicated. This ad for “Elvis Presley in Concert” claims that he is to play six provincial British cities next February and March.
The ad (click to enlarge it) doesn’t say it’s an impersonator. It says it’s Elvis [...]
We’ve given several examples in the book of misleading theatre and film reviews. We’ve also mentioned how Sony conjured up a wholly fictitious film reviewer to give glowing blurbs for their movies. But, thanks to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which became law throughout the EU last year, we are supposed to have seen an [...]
For the next week, you can use the invaluable BBC’s Listen Again service to listen to silence. Yup, appearing in the list of Radio 4 programmes today is the Armistice Day Two Minutes’ Silence. Do they imagine that those who missed it or were unable to mark the occasion at eleven o’clock on the eleventh [...]
Following a few links on the BBC’s news website to keep up to date with the latest on the MPs’ expenses scandal, I found that one link wasn’t working. I wouldn’t normally examine the error message on my screen in detail but the conjunction of letters in the middle rather leapt out at me.
It’s hard [...]
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