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Newspaper group bans ads for 'adult services' to tackle sex trafficking
One of the largest newspaper publishers in the UK has banned advertisements for "adult services" from its titles - almost 300 publications, including 17 dailies and websites.
Newsquest South London has "taken a decision no longer to publish adult services advertisements, either in print or on its websites. Increasing concerns regarding the appalling issue of human trafficking have been significant in this decision, which is effective immediately."
Newsquest's head office would not elaborate on the decision or the possible impact on advertising revenue, but campaign groups have welcomed the move. Members of the Croydon Community Against Trafficking posed as punters answering ads. In a Society Guardian report last year, it revealed that 84% of women being sold for sex were from overseas, most of them trafficked.
About time or an overreaction? Whose responsibility is it to police how and where adult companies can advertise their services? What impact will this have on the company's revenues? Does anyone actually buy newspapers or magazines *just* for the sex ads? Will other publishers be persuaded to follow suit? And what real impact will this have on tackling sex trafficking?
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Daily Mail lands another exclusive: the bin from Angelina's hospital room
Stop the press!
"One photo of a bin filled with empty beer cans suggests proud dad Brad, 44, sank a few lagers to mark the arrival of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline earlier this month."
Also contains exclusive shots of the sofa where Brad could have slept in the run-up to the twins' arrival, some plastic bags they might have put things in, and cereal boxes they possibly ate from. Stop the press! ... more -
Press Gang // Comment Picked for TV
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Press Gang
Ever wondered about those guys who hand out the London Paper and London Lite? Is it a rubbish job or an easy living?
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Daily Mail sinks to new low: checking out children on the beach
The Daily Mail today reports that "sweet" Sweet Georgia May Jagger, daughter of musician Mick Jagger and model Jerry Hall, "has inherited her father's famous lips and her model mother's stunning figure as she stepped out in a bikini while holidaying in France."
Er, Daily Mail, you're pointing that telephoto lens at a child on a beach. Wrong much?
Almost as gross as Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles counting down the days to Charlotte Church's 16th birthday when she'd be legal and he could 'take her virginity' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2...
What is it about girls suddenly reaching the age of consent that has the tabloids slavering over their still-unformed bodies?
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Green noise: are we getting too much information on the environment?
Does the media damage the climate change movement by shoving too much contradictory, bossy, or just parrot-like information down our throats? Does this wall of information we're presented with create a kind of static that we can't hear anymore? Does the media damage the climate change movement by shoving too much contradictory, bossy, or just parrot-like information down our t... more
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Mother sues newspapers over Bebo defamation
A mother is suing six national newspapers for defamation and breach of privacy after they ran stories and photos taken from Bebo about a 'drunken party' that turned out to be false, reports the Independent.
On her Bebo page, Jodie Hudson described a riot of sex and wanton damage fuelled by under-age drinking that only ended when the police arrived. Newspapers leapt on the story and published photos from her Bebo site alongside their reports.
But Hudson's lurid description of the party, subsequently carried in a number of national newspapers, turned out to be fantasy. The media stories, and the accompanying pictures taken from Bebo, are now the subject of a landmark legal case that could redraw the boundaries of the use of information published on social networking sites including Bebo, Facebook and MySpace.
Should newspapers be able to access and - if deemed newsworthy enough - publish your photos and writings from social networking sites, without your permission? Surely its a journalist's reponsbility to corroborate stories like this *before* they publish them?
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Credit crunch hits dominatrixes too
The News of The World paid a dominatrix only half of the £25,000 they offered her to make a secret film of Max Mosley's sex session because of the credit crunch, the Times reports.
So it seems that sex still sells... just for a little less than before.
Has the so-called credit crunch affected your pocket yet? Or your career in the sex industry perhaps?
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Daily Mail left red-faced after laptop security blunder
Everyone's favourite neo-fascist tabloid rag, The Daily Mail, was left red-faced today after it emerged that a laptop containing the financial information of thousands of members of staff was stolen.
This ineptitude comes only months after the newspaper lead with a serious of inflammatory front-page headlines attacking the government for 'mind-blowing incompetence' following a similar data-loss incident.
The Mail's publishers Associated Newspapers issued a statement saying that the loss was due to a 'technical issue'. Everyone's favourite neo-fascist tabloid rag, The Daily Mail, was left red-faced today after it emerged that a laptop containing the f... more -
Save the Internet
"The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and it wasn't long before only commercial radio existed.
The internet needs to stay neutral and not give certain files preference." "The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connect... more -
Times On Your Side
Searches are up for Natasha Archdale, the British artist who appreciates the female form so much that she creates pictures of female nudes from pieces of the Financial Times. Searches are up for Natasha Archdale, the British artist who appreciates the female form so much that she creates pictures of female n... more
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Your local news by way of the Philippines / India
The Tampa Tribune, with the blessing of it's corporate owners -- Media General, has outsourced it's advertising work to a firm in New Delhi, India. This is long after they outsourced subscription services to a call center in the Philippines.
This is not an uncommon issue with your local newspapers either. Though the story linked to focuses on the Tampa Tribune situation, it can be found that more and more newspapers are doing this. It may be accepted that more local media is owned by out-of-city/state corporations with no local ties... But outsourcing local operations for a newspaper? The further disconnect to the region of service is another reason why newsprint is failing financially. The Tampa Tribune, with the blessing of it's corporate owners -- Media General, has outsourced it's advertising work to a firm in New ... more -
The big picture
Whoah. My new favorite news site: Boston.com launched a micro-site that just shows you gigantic, gorgeous images of the news. Goodbye, inverted pyramid!
Seriously, these pictures are huge.
They almost make me dizzy. Whoah. My new favorite news site: Boston.com launched a micro-site that just shows you gigantic, gorgeous images of the news. Goodbye,... more -
Venerable American newspapers face extinction
The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry’s deep malaise. The Grey Lady’s circulation is tumbling, down another 3.9% in the latest data from America’s Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Its advertising revenues are down, too (12.5% lower in March than a year earlier), as is the share price of its owner, the New York Times Company, up from its January low but still over 20% below what it was last July. On Tuesday April 29th Standard & Poor’s cut the firm’s debt rating to one notch above junk.
At the company’s annual meeting a week earlier, its embattled publisher, Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger, attempted to quash rumours that his family is preparing to jettison the firm it has owned since 1896. Carnage is expected soon as dozens of what were once the safest jobs in journalism are axed, since too few of the staff have accepted a generous offer of voluntary redundancy.
Pick almost any American newspaper company and you can tell a similar story.... The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry’s deep malaise. The Gr... more -
Dear Mainstream Media
Dear Mainstream Media
This is anonymous.
I have come to replace you.
You have become shockingly irrelevant with your short attention span and relentless focus on the latest titillating headline.
I will no longer be hostage to your
values and commercial breaks.
Any further attempts to command and
control me will fail....
Dear Mainstream Media This is anonymous. I have come to replace you. ... more -
Stop Killing Children: Newspaper Launches Citywide Campaign
The Chicago Sun-Times featured a front cover with all backwards lettering and an image of a caucasian group of residents with their backs turned to the camera, in what they call a start of a campaign to stop the killing of children in inner city Chicago. This came after a weekend in which 26 shooting incidences resulted in 9 deaths and dozens of injuries. As with everything else, this should have started earlier because children have been killing each other worldwide for the past 55 years, but other American newspapers should follow the lead of the Sun-Times and the Baltimore Sun. The Chicago Sun-Times featured a front cover with all backwards lettering and an image of a caucasian group of residents with their ba... more
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New York Times Posts Historic Loss
The New York Times Company revealed it posted a $335,000 loss in the first quarter — one of the worst periods the newspaper industry has seen. The New York Times Company revealed it posted a $335,000 loss in the first quarter — one of the worst periods the newspaper industry h... more
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United Kingdom Talk Tuesday 15th April 2008
Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.
In today's show :
Puzzled.
Close your eyes and imagine.
Bungee.
Touch pads.
We read proper newspapers.
New Years resolutions.
Tissues are standing by.
The new series of Dr Who.
A show every day ?
"You know"
What celebrities do I fancy ?
Jumping subjects.
Email offers - from girls !
A missed birthday.
Different outfits.
Parking cameras.
Subway - where's the butter ?
Doors with springs.
My visits to McDonalds.
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Email :
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WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show. In today's show : Puzzled. Close your eyes and imagine. Bungee. ... more -
internet killed the newspaper star?
As newspaper publishers build up their online operations and struggle through an advertising slump, one group is worried about being left behind -- the folks who make printing presses and other equipment used to make newspapers...
Is new technology making traditional newspapers obsolete? will print shops have to worry about shutting down altogether? As newspaper publishers build up their online operations and struggle through an advertising slump, one group is worried about being l... more -
Media prove April Fool's jokes are a laughing matter
Media around the world regaled their audiences with stories of stretched French presidents and bisexual James Bonds on Tuesday, proving the tradition of April Fool's jokes was alive and kicking. Media around the world regaled their audiences with stories of stretched French presidents and bisexual James Bonds on Tuesday, provin... more
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