Mac201 Media Studies 1

27/10/2023

This module no longer runs.
It was replaced by MED260 but then the university “paused” recruitment to the programme that served it, essentially killing off a degree that has run since the 1990s.

22/12/2022

Sad Jane

15/12/2022

Strikes!

Pie lays into all the bloody poor people for daring to ask for better pay, conditions and job security. https://www.jonathanpie.com/

28/09/2022

The Daily Express has a bit of track record when it comes to telling the voting public who should be the leader of the country. How’s that working out?

19/09/2022

10/07/2022

Did you know…. 20/55 prime minsters went to Eton College?

Cheap at £42500 a year…

A new memoir recalls life at Eton College – the school for the country's most powerful and privileged. John Self looks at how it has captured writers' imaginations for decades.

13/04/2022

Other than the awful situation the folk find themselves in during Shanghai, Vice have had to rely upon unverified social media posts from Chinese sites (themselves subject to significant pruning) to tell this story.

The video of people screaming that was reposted to Twitter was particularly haunting

The mega-city of 25 million people is enduring China’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, and the response from authorities has been swift and brutal.

18/01/2022

14/01/2022

This is going to be a relatively short post because I only have one simple point that I want to make. Namely, “balance” does not mean presenting conspiracy theories and nonsense alongside facts as …

26/12/2021