Category Archives: Media

Mailer

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The last 25 years haven’t been particularly kind to Norman Mailer, who died yesterday, as his various attempts to produce “The Great American Novel” all ended in dismal and embarrassing failure. But go a bit further back and The Armies … Continue reading →

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Stat Porn: 100,000 Up!

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On Thursday The Bristol Blogger got their 100,000th hit. This has taken 33 weeks and means that The Blogger is averaging over 3,000 hits per week since it started in March. However the blog is currently getting between 5-6,000 hits … Continue reading →

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Tough at the top?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Clearly it’s not just Heather Tomlinson feeling the pressure and turning into a raving paranoid loon who’s lost all their bearings. Mike Norton, Bristol United Press’s Group Editor responsible for all their local publications including The Cancer, The Depress and … Continue reading →

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Quick off the mark again at the BBC

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Blogger September 29 2007: the council’s recent citizen’s jury on waste . . . appear to have decided to introduce a charge – for the first time – for the collection of extra waste, which the council’s press … Continue reading →

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E-democracy conflab joy

Posted on October 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Are they keeping this a secret so that selected council staff can scoff all the tax payer-funded canapés themselves? An alert reader flags up the forthcoming Bristol E-Democracy Day – ‘Modern Methods of governance – democracy in action or mob … Continue reading →

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Rearranging the deckchairs? Or how local journalism works

Posted on October 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a very brief guide to how local journalists do their job. They claim that they’re overworked and underpaid and that they “hold many of Bristol’s decision-makers accountable on a daily basis“. Ho, ho, ho. Here’s a press release from … Continue reading →

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Venue in gay fire fighters shocker!

Posted on October 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Turned to the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Tri, Trans and None of the Above-sexual pages of today’s Venue magazine – the nearest thing we have to a liberal voice here in Tory Town – hoping to read some informed comment from … Continue reading →

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"The geese are flying south from Slimbridge early this autumn"

Posted on October 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

With a Bash the Rich march through Notting Hill – perhaps heralding the greatest resurgence of english anarchism in at least a generation – scheduled to take place precisely one month from now, has the publisher of Ian Bone’s Bash … Continue reading →

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Banksy Balls: it's a new one!

Posted on October 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Photo from Jam Factory Prepare yourselves for some skin-crawlingly embarrassing outbursts of chattering class pant-wetting over the next few days because a new Banksy has been ‘discovered’ on Park Row. Within hours the young ‘n’ edgy end of the local … Continue reading →

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Competition time! Here's a clue . . .

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not much joy with the comp yet so here’s a clue. The key phrase in the convoluted spin is: waste chargeable (The Blogger is expecting to take delivery this evening of a draft copy of the citizen’s jury report. Any … Continue reading →

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