Frankie Boyle: offensive or hilarious?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/26/frankie-boyle-channel-4-series

Franie Boyle is one of the most controversial comics of his generation, he has often been slated for comments he has made about the queen and olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington.

Boyle who has become widely popular through BBC television show Mock The Week, often makes controversial jokes but his comment about the queen, "I'm now so old my pussy is haunted" was seen as too far for many people.

Boyles show will be in a late-night slot and has been described as "not for the faint hearted".

Personally i think that Frankie Boyle is a genius and that his comment about the queen was very funny, i was watching Mock The Week when it happened and i literally Rolled On the Floor Laughing. (ROFL)

Big Brother is watching

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/25/big-brother-channel-5

Richard Desmod the new owner of Channel 5, and owner of northern & shell, has officially stated that he has the intetion of making a deal with Edemol, the producers of Big Brother.

Endemol's last deal with Channel 4, in 2007, is rumoured to have been worth £70 millin but it is likely that Desmond will only have to pay about £30 million if he is to secure a deal with Endemol.

Endemol has invested heavily in Big Brother and failing to secure a deal may be costly for them.

Google to hire 200 in Dublin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/20/google-hire-200-in-dublin

Google are set to expand their European headquaters to allow jobs for 200 new people, this will allow them to work on their location-based products such as google maps.

Over the years google has rapidly grown to become a successful company that has managed to monopolies the market as a seach engine, with products in maps, videos and many other parts of the internet.

A recent article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/22/wired-anderson-wolff-web-usage)
has stated that some peoplethink that Apple products such as the Ipad and Ipod touch are killing the internet and forcing it into hand-held appliances; IS THIS GOOGLE FIGHTING BACK?

Attitude owner to buy loaded

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/20/attitude-owner-to-buy-loaded

IPC Media is set to sell the lads mag loaded to Vitality.
Vitality are the publishers of the gay lifestyle magazine attitude; loaded has changed ove the years (picture) so are we set to see another change to the face of the popular lads mag.

Loaded has had a 26.3% decrease in circulation figures over the past year so maybe a change to the style of the magazine will be for the magazine.

Murdoch: tablets are the future of news corp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/aug/03/rupert-murdoch-ipad-paywalls

"It looks like they will sell around 15m iPads this calender year and more than 40m by 2012. And the Ipad is just one of the many tablet or slate computers in the pipeline. News Corp fully intends to be across all those platforms too."

So Rupert Murdoch is cosying up to Apple and well who can blame him, as one the biggest names in the media industry apple are a good friend to have, Murdoch clearly knows this.

It is reported that blackberry are preparing to take on Apple as their new Torch phone is a big rival to Apples core market. Also Blackberry have been working on a direct rivalk to the Ipad dubbed the Blackpad.

ways in which truth is shown in a documentary

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-men-who-jump-off-buildings/4od



After watching an advert for a car i can't buy and a Tom Jones CD i don't want to buy on the 4OD site, the programme starts.

Notice i haven't chosen the most obvious documentary, as to be honest they bore me, i think it will be interresting to note how this one shows truth and compare it to your everyday boring documetary.

This documentary uses a mixture of base jumping clips and one-on-one interviews to show the truth of how the base jumping world works.

The documentary follows two base jumpers, Dan Witchalls and Ian Richardson, these two jumpers are nicknamed the "bandit jumpers" due to the fact that they jump buildings at night.

We learn that some of the london landmarks they have jumped from include:

• wembley stadium
• the O2 arena
• nelsons collum
• the hilton hotel

During the documentary truth is shown through the use of original jump footage and personal interviews with the jumpers.