adrian monck

Month: February 2007

  • Jonathan Lethem in Harpers gets himself knotted up in the twisty world of plagiarism and sampling…(hat-tips we call them in the blogosphere)

  • ‘Reconstructions’ and illustrations

    Tonight, the lead item on the BBC 10 was the story of a young girl who was tormented by her parents. It began with a ‘reconstruction.’ From the ‘reconstruction’ you might have thought the child lived in a privileged, well-decorated home. Is that right? My hunch is that it would be quite, quite wrong. On…

  • What’s that coming over the hill…

    Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes: “…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. Slate‘s…

  • The Belfast Telegraph has a TV service. Indie house Macmillan is providing it. Style is a conventional local news bulletin. Nice try, but again it’s ‘smart idea meets mundane execution’ time.