2009

31 August

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Media Disney buys Marvel by Nick

And the crowd goes wild. And a little bewildered.

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04 February

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Media Make/Shift #6 seeking submissions by Kate

From the email:

Make/shift—a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism—is seeking submissions for its sixth issue (fall/winter 2009/10).

Deadline for issue 6 is March 1, 2009. More info after the jump.

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2008

17 May

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Geek The Origins of Zines by Nick

On zines and SF fandom.

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2007

16 December

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Media Correction of the Day by Nick

From Gawker, a magnificant howler from — you guessed it — The Guardian:

We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26, page 30.

Spotted via Brad DeLong’s blog, on which a commentator points out another couple of classics:

Not bad, but I prefer the one “Slate” just turned up from the NY Times: “A brief art review in Weekend on May 8, 1987 misstated the location of a small painting. It was displayed in the vitrine near the receptionist’s desk, not the latrine.” (That, and the apology the LA Times ran a few years ago for running a photograph of a death cap in its “Food” section under the caption “Edible Mushrooms”.)

14 December

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Media 2000AD goes digital by Nick

2000AD, the whacked-out, weekly SF anthology comic that brought the world Judge Dredd, is about to unleash…

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02 October

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Media Magazine review: make/shift issue 2 by Kate

I didn’t actually think I could be any more enthusiastic about make/shift magazine (subtitle: feminisms in motion) than I already had been, but then the second issue arrives in the post with an (apparently unintentional) media theme and that theory promptly fell by the wayside.

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21 April

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Media Gossip mongering goes international by Kate

Defamer, formerly the LA-only gossip staple of the Gawker Media empire, is going global. Kind of. Jess from Ausculture.com , a gloriously snarky Australian pop culture blog, has just announced that she it now going to be blogging for Defamer Australia .

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08 April

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Media The Independent takes issue with Out magazine's Pink List by Kate

but only because it claims ownership of the terminology , not due to any criticism of dubious excursions in outing.

“I would be lying if I told you I wasn’t aware of your list,” Aaron Hicklin, editor of Out, said yesterday.

And in return, the Independent on Sunday sighs in relief and feels thoroughly validated.

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25 February

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Media Magazine review: Velvetpark by Kate

Velvetpark has sought to be the tattooed dyke to Diva (or Curve, depending on geography) magazine’s pant-suited lesbian for a few years now. And its dyke badge is something that the magazine wears proudly, having challenged the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) over their use of the word dyke, a word previously rejected as being “immoral and scandalous”. This seems to be the only appearance of anything resembling scandal, in this particular issue anyway. While the cover stars may feature the Chicago Rollergirls, the real star of the issue is Martina Navratilova.

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2006

22 November

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Music Ditto for (Beth) Ditto by Kate

As a result of topping NME’s mysterious ‘Cool’ list, Beth Ditto, lead singer of the Gossip (evidently low on the list of her qualifications), has hit the headlines.

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