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With your feet on the air & your head on the ground...
As well as writing & recording his own albums, Johnston was a prolific artist whose iconic album cover illustration got ‘Hi, How are...
Nick Saward
Sep 21, 20191 min read
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Chewing Gum for the Eyes?
Thee BBC say they are ready for the continuing changes to the landscape of broadcasting. The quotation below links to the article...
Nick Saward
Sep 18, 20191 min read
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Au Revoir Marie Claire
Following the decision both here and across the Atlantic to cease publishing major newspapers and magazines, the Guardian's Mark Sweney...
Nick Saward
Sep 16, 20191 min read
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This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
A lively debate about whether or not it is possible to have a fair and balanced argument in the broadcast media whilst everyone else is...
Nick Saward
Sep 13, 20191 min read
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PWB
The wonderful and diversely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her many guises, writer and star of Fleabag, script doctor on Bond 25,...
Nick Saward
Sep 12, 20191 min read
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Fan. (noun) ... from the Latin fanaticus
Here's a link to the New Yorker article: Superfans: A Love Story From “Star Wars” to “Game of Thrones,” fans have more power than ever to...
Nick Saward
Sep 11, 20191 min read
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Life Imitating Art Imitating Life?
This week saw the launch of the long awaited sequel to the novel: The Handmaid's Tale. It may have been convenient timing for the...
Nick Saward
Sep 10, 20191 min read
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'Fixing' the news...
Here is a link to the Guardian article referred to in the post... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/is-not-sex-and-broken-hea...
Nick Saward
Sep 9, 20191 min read
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It definitely is Friday...
Here are the two front pages of the English & Scottish editions of The Sun (don't buy The Sun) yesterday... ... and here is one of the...
Nick Saward
Sep 6, 20191 min read
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Hello - it's not Wednesday!
Welcome to my first Media Studies Vlog! As mentioned above, feel free to comment on different examples of the dreaded social media 'Echo...
Nick Saward
Sep 5, 20191 min read
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