Agenda Setting round up
Some recent examples of agenda setting in the news – both taken from Private Eye – Firstly, on December 15th, the BBC devoted 3 minutes of air time to promoting its remake of ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ –...
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Cost of different types of fraud to the UK economy
I just knocked up this little bar chart based on data from this article by Polly Toynbee I think it illustrates quite nicely how benefit fraud really isn’t a problem in the grand scheme of things....
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Sesame street’s Hungry Puppet – It sucks being poor, but here’s how to cope
Sesame Street recently introduced a new puppet - Lilly, whose family is living on the breadline, like 17 million families in America who face ‘food insecurity’. She was introduced in an hour long...
View ArticleTime Management – More about ideological control than stress reduction?
It’s National Stress Awareness Day - I was alerted to this fact by a blog post on ’10 ways to cope with stress’ from the equality and diversity blog. I generally like this blog, and some of the ten...
View ArticleThree Alternatives to the Tory Cuts
Given that the three major causes of the crisis are 1. A Failure of government to regulate the finance sector 2. Finance Capitalists (Bankers) having too much power and 3. Capitalism – or at least...
View ArticleAre the Muppets really lighting the lights?
The Muppets latest movie features an evil oil tycoon called ‘Tex Richman’ who wants to extract oil from under the Muppets’ old theatre…. The general plot line and name of the character were enough to...
View ArticleAnyone else getting irritated by the BBC’s lurch to the right?
The Labour party recently made a “serious complaint” to the BBC about a lack of political balance in its news coverage According to the Guardian – ‘Party officials monitored invitations, and time...
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Three Myths of The Young Apprentice
The Young Apprentice is one of the very few programmes I make a point of watching. What’s odd is that I enjoy it even though it spreads three messages that I have a real problem with – Firslty, it...
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Inequality updates – UK Focus
While the recent recession and ‘recovery’ have meant economic hardship and uncertainty for the majority, the VERY rich have got relatively richer. Before looking at things sociologically (looking at...
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TTIP – Putting Profit before People
The government is about to sign up to a treaty which will would allow companies like Sports Direct (just a random example) to sue a future government for increasing the minimum wage, if introducing...
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