How Big Brother became Big Boring

Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Matt Taylor

Does anybody still watch Big Brother? At 26, I fall, more or less, into the middle of the Channel 4 show’s 16 to 34-year-old target audience but I haven’t watched a single episode of Big Brother 10. And neither has anyone else apparently.

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The great media debate – a damp squib?

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Matt Taylor

Last Monday saw the much trumpeted debate on the state of the Midlands media take place in Birmingham.
Sadly, it turned out to be little more than a lengthy attack on Trinity Mirror’s stewardship of the two main newspaper titles in the city, the Mail and the Post.

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Michael Jackson’s death resurrects the new media / old media debate

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Matt Taylor

It was as easy as ABC for social media sites to start spreading news of Michael Jackson’s death last week.
Unfettered by the conventions of the established media, rumours of the star’s death began emanating across the social media spectrum within minutes of his actual passing.

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