That's it for me, this week. I'm off to Newcastle on Tyne for a UK School Games team managers' orientation meeting, which promises to be enormously debauched. I don't think.
Meanwhile: half my job is in Media/Cultural Studies, and so I'm used to people making snobbish remarks about the subject. I'm bored with pointing out that in an overwhelmingly mediatized culture (could we be anything else?), knowing how the media works on a cultural, political, economic and theoretical level is mighty useful.
So I'll merely point you in the direction of Mr. George Orwell, who points out in the essays 'Good Bad Books' and 'Boys' Weeklies' that popular media can tell you far more about a society than the minutely-selling highbrow literature. They're short and punchily written - enjoy.
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