Everybody wants good news. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wants good news. The advertising department wants good news. But what would a newspaper be if a paper only printed good news? It would be what you see above. Here’s what looks like a copy of The Sunday Times, London, with all the bad news cut out.…
Daily Archives: 11 July 2007
The young shall inherit the newspaper earth
Publishers, editors and assorted paid pipers in the newspaper industry these days make a big song and dance about attracting young readers, about creating a product that will appeal to the young, because it is these young readers who will grow into tomorrow’s adults. But, as this YouTube video of a 1960s television commercial for…
Who shrunk Dagwood Bumbstead, Mr Dithers?
“Oh, I could do that with my eyes closed,” has become a cliche in the mouths of the super-confident. In 1947, Life magazine asked some well-known comic strip artists to draw their characters with their eyes closed. This is how Dagwood Bumstead the perenially-late-for-work, always-sleeping-on-the-couch husband of Blondie turned out in the hands of his…
‘The Ahmeds are under a siege by the media’
B.T. Venkatesh, the lawyer for the parents of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, the Bangalore brothers arrested in Britain in connection with the failed attack on Glasgow Airport, was on NDTV last night. “My clients have virtually been imprisoned by the media. There are dozens of reporters and photographers outside their home. They cannot go…
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