Tag Archives: media

Distinct Voices

Posted on May 30, 2020 by the archivist

Continuing with the media: Sir David Attenborough has said the coronavirus pandemic has swept the problem of climate change from the front pages. The broadcaster and naturalist, who celebrated his 94th birthday in May, said the outbreak has made the issue feel as if it … Continue reading →

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Old Media and New Media

Posted on May 29, 2020 by the archivist

I’ve spent much of the last week or so watching Joe Rogan talking to Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson about the brief reglaciation of the Younger Dryas at the end of the last ice age. It’s something I’m very interested … Continue reading →

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Pop News

Posted on October 21, 2019 by the archivist

I must say that when someone posted a comment here a few days ago with the Canning Town video, I didn’t know what it was about. It looked to me like I was watching some politician being pulled off a … Continue reading →

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Supply and Demand

Posted on June 9, 2019 by the archivist

I stopped watching TV after the UK smoking ban, because nobody smoked on TV, and nobody spoke up for smokers on TV. On TV I saw depicted a world to which I didn’t belong, and to which I didn’t want … Continue reading →

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The Dying Mainstream Media

Posted on February 14, 2019 by the archivist

A couple of bits of news. First, in the UK: …record numbers of people are already abandoning the BBC, either giving up television altogether or migrating to more modern streaming services like Netflix and others, which offer a range of … Continue reading →

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There’s Nothing Like Personal Experience

Posted on December 29, 2018 by the archivist

I wrote yesterday that I thought that mandatory restrictions on the size of food portions would trigger a social uprising of a kind that didn’t happen with smoking restrictions and smoking bans. And this was because, while smoking bans only … Continue reading →

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Internecine Media War

Posted on July 28, 2018 by the archivist

Guardian: Alex Jones, the American conspiracy theorist who runs the InfoWars website, has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. The suspension will last for 30 days, and affects only Jones’s personal account on the social network, not the main … Continue reading →

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Failing Social Engineering Programmes

Posted on April 3, 2018 by the archivist

Antismoking campaigns are social engineering programmes. But they are just one of many such social engineering programmes. We’re knee deep in programmes of this sort. Anti-obesity, anti-fat, ant-sugar, anti-salt are also attendant social engineering programmes. Global warming/climate change is another … Continue reading →

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The Hidden Power of Smokers

Posted on November 27, 2016 by the archivist

Comment by MJM : Trump appealed to smoker-voters because he was NOT HILLARY. Hillary started off with banning smoking in the White House, but when she moved into government itself and pushed the creation and passage of the SCHIP tax … Continue reading →

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GO HOME HEALTH WRITERS, YOU’RE DRUNK

Posted on July 26, 2016 by the archivist

Following on from last night’s post, I’ve been collating a few media reports on the alcohol-causes-7-types-of-cancer story. ctvnews: Alcohol causes 7 kinds of cancer, study concludes Alcohol is a direct cause of seven forms of cancer. Tough words to swallow, … Continue reading →

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