Below are the 14 most recent journal entries recorded in Drivel in the Media's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
4:17 am [jdbartlett]	Private Eye feed through LiveJournal Every fortnight, the Private Eye team update their website with a couple of tidbits from their latest issue. Being an Englishman living overseas, I’m very grateful for this, because it’s the only way I can read the bloody thing. This, however, means visiting the website every fortnight, and I’m a scatterbrain when it comes to such things. With this in mind, I used some programming skills to syndicate the following RSS feed for personal use. I thought I’d let you in on it, too: http://www.jdbartlett.com/rss/private-eye.xml I would also like a hand with something. What would be really neat would be to create a syndicated LiveJournal account to turn this RSS feed into something we can all add to our friends lists. What that would mean is that each week, our friends lists could be updated with the latest from private-eye.co.uk, including (if it keeps working as well as it does right now) images of the strips and look-alikes. Unfortunately, this can only be set up by someone who owns a paid-for LiveJournal account, something my current budget doesn’t allow for. If anyone in this community has a paid-for LiveJournal account, please click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page that loads up, then paste the URL of the Private Eye RSS feed (http://www.jdbartlett.com/rss/private-eye.xml) into the textbox marked “Feed URL” and click submit -- that’s all it takes. For more information about LiveJournal’s syndicated accounts feature, please click here. For an example of something like this having been done in the past, please click here to see The Onion's syndicated LiveJournal account. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 10th, 2003
11:16 am [fraserspeirs]	Power of the Disk Microsoft: "Ultimately, we're the company that believes in the power of the local hard disk" (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2003
7:30 pm [fraserspeirs]	Superhuman "Everyone gets things wrong from time to time, but Duncan Fletcher invariably gets things right" - former England Cricket captain Nasser Hussein, Radio Five Live. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2003
12:49 am [everdred]	I was just thinking that someone might be interested in this syndicated feed... enjoy. nytimes (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 25th, 2003
1:35 pm [fraserspeirs]	Eurovision Iraq Backlash The UK's worst ever placing in the Eurovision Song Contest was achieved last night. Some pair of tenth-rate artists scored a resounding 0 points. The excuses, however, are first-rate: "I think the UK is suffering from post-Iraq backlash" - Terry Wogan "I think politically we are out on a limb at the moment. As a country I think we paid the price last night" - composer Martin Isherwood "perhaps there was an element involved of whether we should have gone into the Iraq war" - Cheryl Baker Current Mood: ROTFL (Comment on this)
Friday, May 23rd, 2003
12:36 pm [fraserspeirs]	Black - White "Celtic never lost this game tonight" - Mudo MacLeod, Radio Scotland, describing Celtic's, er, 3-2 defeat by FC Porto in the UEFA cup final. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
12:07 pm [fraserspeirs]	Sheridanisms (via lorna_babes) "The most important thing about the SSP tonight is our emergence across Scotland as a new political force what is willing to challenge poverty......" -Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party leader (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
9:39 am [fraserspeirs]	Everyone is elite Tony Blair is to offer £200m to help every hospital gain elite foundation status in an attempt to head off a rebellion over the plans - BBC Online So if every hospital has 'elite status', what does it mean to be 'elite'? <whisper>What it really means is that every hospital will become a pseudo-private company</whisper> (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 1st, 2003
9:02 am [fraserspeirs]	Reports (via xenex) "There are reports that he was wounded, reports that he is dead, reports that he is alive," one official said, referring to Mr. Hussein. "One of those reports is probably right." (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003
9:36 am [fraserspeirs]	More drivel Almost all of this article on the BBC is drivel: The Metropolitan Police remains "institutionally racist" 10 years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the commander of Scotland Yard's anti-racist unit has said Somewhat surprisingly, someone whose job would disappear if she declared x to be true has declared x to be false. (Comment on this)
8:22 am [fraserspeirs]	Huh? "The wolves are Bush and Blair, not the soldiers. The soldiers are lions led by donkeys, sent to kill and be killed." - George Galloway Lions led by Donkeys, eh? What's that all about? (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
2:16 pm [fraserspeirs]	??? "To say that our editorial line was unpatriotic is to deny the democracy we're instilling in Iraq" - Piers Morgan, Editor, The Daily Mirror (on BBC Five Live) No wonder Private Eye calls him "Piers Moron"....... (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 10th, 2003
8:34 am [fraserspeirs]	The Flag Late last night on BBC Five Live, they had an analyst from the Heritage Foundation on to talk about 'vindication' of the Bush policy toward Iraq, alongside a leading anti-war protester. Anti-war lady: < makes a very long and nuanced point about legality and consequences > Nicky Campbell (for it is he): Right. OK. Umm. Mr. Analyst - will we see any more Stars and Stripes draped on statues? Mr. Analyst: Who cares? Never say the media don't tackle the burning issues....... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2003
5:54 pm [fraserspeirs]	What we believe in From Private Eye this week: Thanks to basketball star Tyroon Lue, who plays for the Washington Wizards, we now understand what America is fighting for. “I definitely feel for the families and friends of those who have to go over there and fight the war,” he told the Associated Press, “but we also have a war we have to fight, too -- the Washington Wizards are trying to make the play-offs. It’s pretty much the same thing. They’re going over there to fight for what they believe in, what we believe in as a country. We’re fighting for what we believe in as a basketball team.” (1 Comment |Comment on this)