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Una Mullally

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grimes3 Grimes shoots a feminist arrow across the indie pop battlefield*

Grimes ends her touring and album promotion cycle with some strong words.

herald Daily Digest: Tuesday. A media special.

Loads of interesting media stories knocking around, so I thought I’d gather them in the Daily Digest today. The Evening Herald is set to become The Herald, and sold as a morning paper. This story originally appeared in the Irish …

offtheball Off The Ball team leaves Newstalk
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  • March 4, 2013, 17:28

The team behind Off The Ball, a show that is in my opinion the best on Irish radio, has resigned from Newstalk today. The programme will go ahead with founding presenter Ger Gilroy and a group of Newstalk sports reporters. …

Ceol ar an Imeall Series 4

The alternative music show I present for TG4 is back for a fourth series, starting next Tuesday (8th) at 11pm. The new series has a load of brilliant Irish acts performing live in studio, and you can check out who …

‘Provocation for Profit? Assault as a Marketing Accessory?’ The Quietus on Rihanna.

“ In terms of online popularity, page hits are king. As a result, provocative subjects and statements that prompt instant reactions – and finger-clicks – take precedence. They form the bedrock of comment-board-driven editorial planning, in a world where comments themselves …

Radio On The Record

This happened while I was away, the successor to Jim Carroll’s The Far Side show. I’ve been listening to it for a good bit of this afternoon and it’s DEADLY, so check it out.

There is no such thing as the ‘right’ kind of boobs in a newspaper

(.)(.) The endless escalating argument over the publication of topless photographs showing Kate Middleton’s baps in newspapers and magazines now has almost as many subplots as boobs have nicknames. There are the randy thigh-rubbing European magazines flicking through the 200 …

Celebrity gossip, academic style

I recently came across Anne Helen Petersen from an article she wrote in the latest issue of Bitch magazine where she wonders if celebrity gossip can ever be feminist. Petersen is a doctor of celebrity gossip and teaches media studies …