Media Bastard

March 8, 2010

“No time like now to enter journalism,” says the Guardian’s Emily Bell. But where’s the money?

A hurricane of optimism descended on City University this afternoon as Emily Bell, director of digital content at Guardian News & Media (GNM), painted a picture of a “world of better” for British journalism during a lecture to journalism faculty students.

Bell: "There is no time like now to enter journalism."

Bell spoke of increasing standards across the industry, partly fuelled by the development of communications technology in recent years, and insisted that there was “no time like now to enter journalism.” She spoke in excited tones about live reporting, citing Keep reading →

March 1, 2010

The 1001 things more important than Cheryl and Ashley Cole

The news headlines have been dominated in recent weeks by the actions of a few pig-headed, overpaid oxygen thieves. Media Bastard is sure he isn’t alone in wishing for the consignment of Messrs Cole, Terry and Bridge to the IQ-sapping pages of the gossip mags to which they belong. Certain that there is an appetite for real news out there, the Bastard team conducted a quick vox-pop of students at City University London about all the things they cared about more than Ashley and Cheryl Cole. The results can be seen below:

February 26, 2010

Four Lions – Does Chris Morris’ suicide bomber flick have a touch of Monkey Dust?

Media Bastard has been enjoying the hype about Chris Morris’ suicide bomber flick Four Lions ever since the Guardian aired this exclusive clip. It got him wondering, however, whether Mr Morris might have used the BBC’s hysterical animated series Monkey Dust as inspiration. Watch the Guardian trailer and the clip below and draw your own conclusions…