Category Archives: Media

Don’t blame it on the Blankie

June 29, 2009 – 9:41 pm

When I was a little girl (say 2 or 3 years old), my Dad used to sing Don’t Blame it on the Boogie to me, but he refashioned it as “Don’t Blame it on the Blankie“. My security blanket had the very imaginative name of “Blankie”. Apparently I would wail and say, “No-o-o-o-o-o! Don’t blame [...]

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Anonymous no more…

June 18, 2009 – 9:02 pm

I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is.
“The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view of [...]

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A cunning plan…

June 4, 2009 – 4:18 pm

I’m not a fan of the reality TV genre. It’s lazy television. It makes me want to come out in hives half the time. How can people embarrass themselves like that?
It looks like reality TV might be going the way of the dodo in France. A French court has ruled that being a reality TV [...]

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Through a glass, darkly

April 22, 2009 – 9:48 am

An online persona is an interesting thing - a reflection of the self in a very public forum. One of my old bosses used to say, “Never write anything in a file of which you’d be ashamed if it needed to be produced before the Court.” I tend to employ the same principle with regard [...]

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Monday Funnie: Full moon over Aberdeen (now with bonus Incendiary Immigration)

April 20, 2009 – 6:00 am

A teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with an indecent act which took place during a live BBC Scotland broadcast in Aberdeen.
The 16-year-old was arrested over the incident which took place in St Nicholas graveyard, shortly after the helicopter crash memorial service.
The incident happened just after 1830 BST on Wednesday, 15 April, and [...]

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Defamation for dummies

April 1, 2009 – 6:43 pm

In light of the recent publication of photos purportedly showing a semi-naked Pauline Hanson, we thought it was time to learn a thing or two about the law of defamation. The law of defamation not only has ramifications for newspapers, but also for blogs.
Main Entry: de·fa·ma·tion
Pronunciation: “de-f&-’mA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : communication to third parties of false [...]

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A tort of invasion of privacy for Australia?

March 17, 2009 – 11:48 pm

I only started properly paying attention to the ‘Pauline Hanson pictures’ scandal after reading Iain Hall’s post on whether or not the pictures do actually depict Hanson. I should add that I’m linking to Iain’s post in large part because he’s been careful to crop the image and do a proper analysis ‘for the purposes [...]

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Disappointing Dora

March 16, 2009 – 9:44 pm

Before you have kids, if you are anything like me, you have this idea that you won’t let them get sucked into consuming various television shows, junk food, brand names and etc. Then reality hits as your 2 year old points at an ad in the supermarket carpark and says, “Dere’s Wiggles, Mummy!” Children are [...]

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Stereotypes and victims of crime

March 9, 2009 – 10:40 am

There’s a lengthy and surprisingly bitter thread over at Larvatus Prodeo on two related but conceptually distinct phenomena. The first concerns cultural and racial stereotyping. The second concerns the safety advice police widely give to those who have a greater risk of being victims of crime. The post is a thoughtful one (written by regular [...]

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Cheapie Crikey Subs

February 16, 2009 – 11:33 pm

Before I forget (and in between running tutorials), just a reminder that Club Troppo’s Nick Gruen runs a group subscription to online newsmagazine Crikey every year. The long and the short of the arrangement is that the more people sign up through Nick’s deal (go here and follow the instructions), the cheaper it is. At [...]

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