{"id":3609,"date":"2010-08-26T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2010-08-26T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T20:11:33","slug":"sending-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Sending signals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalists<\/strong>, WTF? I know the house style of the The Sun is best summed up as ‘aim for the worst of all that is bad in society and then lower your sights 45 degrees further”, but what, exactly, does this headline in today’s copy of the Sun convey to readers?<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t it convey ‘gay slayer or foreign spy, meh, they’re all the same’? And what is the divine intervention that The Sun journalist has, to enable him (or her) to *know* that either a foreign spy (not a British spy!) *or* a ‘gay slayer’ (what is one of those, anyway?) did this awful thing? Don’t you just love the British tabloid press and the standards they evidently have? Don’t have, I mean.<\/p>\n

Listening <\/strong>to music is one of life’s great enjoyments. I spend huge amounts of my time in a world filled with pleasant sounds. The continually-falling price of personal mp3 players and mobile phones with the same capability, coupled with a decent pair of earbuds, have given all of us the opportunity to have a private, portable place of pure phonic pleasure. (yeah, sorry about that alliterative whimsy there) But when I was in London the other day, there were two teenagers on the tube, listening to music on their mobile phones. Without headphones. Let me use different words. A pair of teenagers, sitting and chatting together, were listening to different tracks of music *aloud* on their mobile phones. Did I mention they were chatting over their music? Hey kids, here’s a message for you:<\/p>\n

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Planning <\/strong>a magazine cover can’t be an easy job. There must be so many different factors to consider…<\/p>\n

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There <\/strong>has been a significant amount of traffic and chatter about Mary Bale and her alleged feline-binning proclivities. I can’t help wondering what a person with similar tendencies would do if they came across little Koda…<\/p>\n

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I’ll tell you one thing, I’d rather be in the company of Koda anyday, than having to sit on the tube in the presence of two teenagers, shouting their conversation over the loudspeakered tinny din of two portions of noise pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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