Crosses the Line on 3 Continents and Gets Burned?
by Denis Campbell
It’s not been a good week for Rupert Murdoch. 1st he was caught in an interview by his son’s flagship Aussie broadcast network calling President Obama a racist and denying that FOX News’ Glenn Beck compared Obama to Stalin.
Then his flagship London tabloid The Sun [...]
Tag | Sky+
Rupert Murdoch’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week
Posted on 13 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: BSkyB, Donald Trump, FOX News, Glenn Beck, google, New York Post, obama, President Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Sky+, The Guardian, The Sun, The Times, Tories, Wall Street Journal
Baby NOT Alfie’s, Twins Have Two Dads, Better Sex Education Needed?
Posted on 19 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 12 year old Dad, Alfie Patten, Chatelle Stedman, DNA test, FOX, Maisie, Sky+, twins from two dads
By Denis Campbell
Ya think?
It was a tragic tabloid headline feeding frenzy. 12-year old Alfie Patten of Essex was by all photographic accounts an extremely pre-pubescent child. Yet he was paraded out before paparazzi by baby Maisie’s mother Chantelle Stedman, age 15, as the father back in February.
Most were as stunned as the deer-caught-in-the-headlights Alfie. Near [...]
Moments of Twitter Terror
Posted on 02 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: (movie ingénue scream of terror and spooky organ cresce, 02 February, 2:21 am, 357 other, a man who will make so much money on the chicken and pe, BBC, did a very bad white guy attempt at rap at the gridiron, Doing nothing now could mean like the movie monster “th, don’t say you were not warned, For 8-years we did nothing, generally made fun of publicly destroying the life on a, his 140 character at a time plan to dominate the world, his own national economy, http://www.twitter.com/karlrove, I get to follow his Twitter Tweet as he and his team of, Imagine being able to now decode the sinister meaning b, incoming e-mail crossed my screen, innocuous as a 70’s draft notice beginning “Greetings”, I’m screwed, Just so much chum sitting on the blogosphere surface of, KarlRove is now following your updates on Twitter, little old political journo living in Wales, Moments of Twitter Terror, Monday morning, mounting a furious comeback in Super Bowl 43, Next I decode the Rush Limbaugh FIX Noise and Bill O’Re, Our only brief advantage was local terrain knowledge, ran around the house and pulled down all the shades shu, sky is the limit for this uber consultant with the shar, Sky+, The Arizona Cardinals, the man who laughs in the face of Congressional subpoen, very long memory, was now following me, was sure a Delta Team strike force was converging on th, we are all enablers!, You have been warned, “Bush’s Brain”
An incoming e-mail crossed my screen: KarlRove is now following your updates on Twitter… (movie ingénue scream of terror and spooky organ crescendo here!) It was 2:21 am, Monday morning, 02 February. The Arizona Cardinals were mounting a furious comeback in Super Bowl 43 on both BBC and SKY.
It seemed as innocuous as a 70’s [...]
Tough for Convention Telly Abroad
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 4 in the booth, 4 minutes behind last night, Abroad, Access Hollywood, amazing online HD Player, bad hair days, BBC, Bill O’Reilly, BSkyB, C-Span, CNBC, CNN, Convention Telly, DNCC, four terrestrial Dutch (and three German) channels, FOX, Good Evening Wales, HD, hundreds of choices, John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, leg muscles atrophy, McCain, MSNBC, NASA like array, obama, poker 24/7, rip-off quiz call-in shows, Rupert Murdoch, rural Eastern Holland, satellite dish, Sky News, Sky+, streaming live convention feeds, sync up, taping on SKY+, telly makers, three shows run in the background, tired of them both, Tough, UK, US Congressional elections
Ten years abroad and I have to say it is getting better. I now have C-SPAN and MSNBC streaming live convention feeds on each computer, CNN is taping on SKY+ in case Mr. Sandman calls before 5 am local time. The DNCC have an amazing online HD Player for streaming video that is better than [...]
Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun
Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: $250 in petrol vouchers, 2010, BBC, Ben Verwaayen, bitter, British Telecom, Broadband, BSkyB, BT, business boost, Butler, car dealership, consultants, David Cameron, Ford, free handgun, General Motors, Gordon Brown, home communications platform, interactive, Keltec .380, Labour Party, live, Mark Muller, marketing opportunity, Max Motors, Midwest, Missouri, movies, obama, photon cannons, pollsters, pop-up video game array, PR, programmes, Radio 5, real-time, Rupert Murdoch, similar promotion, Sky+, telephony, Tesco, Tesco Supermarkets, UK, USA
The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]
Service’s Sorry State
Posted on 21 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ASDA, BSkyB, BT (British Telecomm), Comcast Cable, CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme, India, Sky+, telephone call centre, Tesco, The Consumerist
The Consumerist website showed this graphic recently about poor service received by Comcast Cable and telephone subscribers across the USA. It was part of an internally circulated Powerpoint presentation by a call centre manager on their CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme and the lack of seriousness with which it is taken inside the company culture.
You [...]
The Tiger’s Roar
Posted on 17 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 108th US Open, 14th major, 91st hole, Adam Scott, band of idiots, Jack Nicklaus, knee, Pacific Ocean, Phil Mickelson, playoff, Rocco Mediate, Rupert Murdoch, San Diego, Sky+, sudden death, Tiger Woods, Torrey PInes, USGA
Every golf fan owes a debt of gratitude to a 33-year old man who, for the last 5-days, dragged his surgically repaired left knee some 22-miles around the Torrey Pines’ south course defeating all comers in the 108th US Open Championship. 358 times, Tiger Woods exerted corkscrew-like downward pressure on that knee, swinging a metal [...]
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Cash
Posted on 29 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: apppointment telly, BBC Radio 5, disney, DVD players, indiana jones, kingdom of the crystal skull, movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sky+, terrestial television
Memorial Day weekend in the USA, a similar 3-day Bank Holiday weekend in the UK and a Pentecost holiday week across much of continental Western Europe meant this was the ideal weekend to launch the biggest blockbuster film of the 2008 summer season. After a long absence, Harrison Ford dusted off his Indiana Jones character [...]
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