French Protest In Support of the Spanish (FTW)

Every time I see this I want to be back in Europe joining in. Instead I can only blog about it. One guy sums it up lovely. "We don't buy your left right politics bullshit. You're all the same and all the media companies are owned by five conglomerates who sell weapons to encourage conflict at the same time." Conflict of interest anybody? Of course the revolution isn't being televised by those media lap dogs, and they're even trying to kick it off Youtube too. 

Remember this from last year? In case you didn't get the irony I was saying capitalism looking rocky. How awesome is that :)

Story of a Princess

This is very well made and I know it's extremely balanced because I find myself defending a person I cared very little for till she was gone. I'll give you an example of that defensiveness. I learned from this documentary that Princess Diana hired a media adviser around the time of the divorce and is later described by her media adviser as 'mercurial'. Well take a look at how unprofessional the media adviser is announcing her appointment. One second it's brilliant (you can see the $$$ in her eyes) and the next (realising it looked inappropriate) it's all going to be hard work. Hardly what I would call a seasoned media professional.

Robert Amsterdam on Fabio Polenghi - An Italian Journalist's Death in Thailand