In 1999 I was invited to speak at the Art Academy of 21st Century. It was a gathering of artists, producers and arts and media folk. Everybody from Laurie Anderson to Timothy Garton Ash and was there. The initiative was created by the Dutch government for thinkers, writers, historians, cultural critics, scientists, economists and dramatists…
She’s just another chav with a cheating boyfriend so I shouldn’t really give a **** but I find Cheryl Cole’s situation astounding. Her ritual humiliation at finding out her partner Cashley Cole, had ended up with an old Premier Football team groupie has led her to lose lots of weight, go to Thailand, get a…
It has been a surreal day. It started on the BBC Breakfast sofa where I rabbited on about Holy Moly’s decision not to accept intrusive paparazzi pictures on their site. It’s an interesting debate but I think the gesture is more of a heroic publicity stunt to garner more notoriety for Holy Moly, than taking…
After the huge interest in the Chalford Donkey I am now drawn to this story about a dog on the BBC web site. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7251195.stm This pet dog is turning heads on the snow-covered slopes – by using a ski-lift. Guinness, a four-year-old collie, leaps into the air and grabs hold of the lift with his…
I am so pleased for my great friend and client Tony Kaye – who has won a Grammy for best short form video for his promo for Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”. It features a huge array of famous faces lipsyncing to the track from the American V album (produced by Rick Rubin)…
Al Jazeera is the largest and most controversial Arabic News Channel in the Middle East, offering news coverage 24 hours a day from around the world. Mark contributes to its round up of 2007 on Al Jazeera’s media show “The Listening Post” Madelaine McCann Harry Potter
Never mind Nick Davies’s suggestion that overworked ‘churnalists’ are being hoodwinked by PRs, Mark Borkowski says flaks and hacks are both struggling to cope with the news cycle. So the media world is flipping over and over like a gigantic overdone pancake because of the ethical fix caused by publication of Nick Davies’ book Flat…
It doesn’t require a journey to Hollywood to notice the effects of the Oscar campaign, that great PR institution that rules the fortunes of the movie world. The Oscars were created as a way of promoting the movies, but they have become, in the hands of Henry Rogers, Warren Cowan and the endless array of…
This is from CMU Daily, a daily email round-up and one of my favourite sources of info – this nib exposes PR at its worst with journalism as it should be… great stuff PLAY.COM ENTER THE DOWNLOAD MARKET Etailer Play.com yesterday announced it was launching a new UK download platform that will make music available…
As the Chalford Donkey disappears off the media agenda let’s not forget the other animals that ignited a newspaper firestorm .. The lion of Kabul, Phoenix the calf, The Tamworth Two, Blackie the donkey ,Dolly the sheep – where are they all now?