Monthly Archives: October 2011
27/10/11 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Tuesday just gone was my second assault on the airwaves. It went well. Things are getting more and more hands-on and my nervous jabbering is beginning to be mistaken for a growing competence that would lend itself to its own show. The persons in charge want to push out new programming and they also want [...]
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- Posted under Homework
24/10/11 I don’t think I like people
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- Posted under Politics
24/10/11 Man shot. Best friend blamed.
We had our first dummy press conference today. We had an hour to write a story based on our notes. I was an idiot and left out the part about the family Alsation being unable to save the day as he was at the vet with an injured paw. His name was Wallace. Bad dog. [...]
Tags: Dogs, Journalism, Middlesbrough
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23/10/11 Dinosaurs Eat Chips
Mum came up to visit so we drove down to Whitby. It’s a lovely place; part picturesque north-coast fishing village, part Gothic enclave of Dracula, Viking pillage and the best fish and chips in the country. And you should see the dinosaurs.
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22/10/11 Dem Po-leece
I thought it was drunks at first, a taxi perhaps. Voices, stern and grizzly, infused with the humour of sleep deprivation and a moral reasoning to back up the hard quality that comes from not being touched enough by mummy – or too much by daddy.
Tags: Denmark, Drugs, Middlesbrough, Music
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- Posted under Rants & Tirades
19/10/11 Notes from a Bar-Crawl
The following notes from the pub are a waste of my time and yours. Consider yourself warned. If you think it’s a rhetorical question it isn’t, and vice versa; if you find it offensive, it’s meant as a joke; if it makes you go all tingly down below in your sexy parts then I have [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Australia, Middlesbrough, Robots
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- Posted under Rants & Tirades
19/10/11 Headline for a Piece about Blog Entries
There would be words here, the words would tell you things, there would also be links. That one takes you to tside.co.uk which is where the proper-serious-correct-and-checked-by-a-teacher-so-it’s-not-shit-and-libellous-like-most-of-the-stuff-on-here will, in future, be found. Any of the views expressed on this blog are poorly constructed and offensive to both creed and intellect; they do not, nor will they [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Australia, Denmark, Journalism, Middlesbrough, Music, Nudity, Students, Video
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18/10/11 Radio Ga Ga
I got to the Click station early and after babbling my usual brand of confused and terrified explanations I was shown to the studio where a broadcast was in full swing. Two girls were being shown the ropes by a chap I took to be a Professional but they were giving it such gusto that I was [...]
Tags: Middlesbrough, Radio, Students
18/10/11 Arson Murder Kills Local Family
We were given the details of the following made-up incident and asked to write a news story about it. This is my first time, be gentle. Four people are dead and a fifth is fighting for his life today following a suspected arson attack on a Middlesbrough home. John Brown, 54, his wife Gillian, [...]
Tags: Journalism, Middlesbrough
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27/10/11 TV Review: Hillsborough Disaster Debate
Inside Out, North West. BBC One, 19.30 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 There are a few news stories that I remember from my early childhood, events so huge that despite barely comprehending them I couldn’t fail to be moved by the public outcry. There were the strikes and riots synonymous with Thatcher’s Britain, together with atrocities [...]
Tags: Hillsborough, Journalism, Politics, TV