Art, media, opinion and ideas
Tuppenceworth doesn't usually link for the sake of it. But today's short, easy to understand explanation of the consequences of taxing Carbon emissions as opposed to establishing a quota and trade system by Alex Klemm of The Progressive Gardener is a model essay.
It seems that one of the jurors in the Scooter Libby case in Washington has been dismissed due to exposure over the weekend to media trial coverage. Fair enough, you can’t be too careful when a man's liberty is at stake.
Prangle. ie (this urban dictionary definition notwithstanding) is a press release service recently launched by a former Sunday Times journalist, Douglas Dalby. It promises to make sense of the hundreds of press releases that daily issue forth from agencies, and target them specifically to the needs of the each journo’s particular beat.
If you're working in PR, an election can mean a shower of extra work- if you can persuade a politician or political party that you have a particular insight. Bear this in mind when you throw your eye over "It's the economy stupid", a post from PR firm Edelman (they of the questionable PR). The article begins by telling us that the economy has been taken for granted by the electorate.
Visits to RTE tend to be rare occurances for me. The last time I was there, Pat Kenny tripped over the mat in the front door and went in to a paroxym of rage. A few minutes later an assistant came down with a doleful looking man with a toolbelt and had him move the circular mat 90 degrees.
Episode one of an occasional series of Paper Round Podcasts. If you subscribe to the full tuppenceworth. ie podcast feed in iTunes or your podcatching program of choice, you also get a bonus set of essays on artworks in the National Gallery.
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Look out for a piece of Paper Round Novelty this Thursday. Girls, Guns and The Daily Mail is our first Podcast. The examples are all taken from the newspapers of the weekend of Jan 26th-28th.
The news this evening is full of the announcement of the publishing of the wording for the new amendment to the Constitution. I use this inelegant formulation because no publishing yet appears to have occurred, though there has been plenty of announcement.
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