Things can’t be too good for Murdoch and his hangers on these days.  Not only is there the mess in Britain but other countries have become alarmed about the corporation’s influence.

It isn’t just countries worried, but regular people as well.  So much so that a new Firefox addon Murdoch Alert has been released which actively alerts about News Corporation controlled websites.  A Chrome extension Murdoch Block actually blocks those websites.

More details at News Junkie Post.

from Wiktionary:

Hyperbole (plural hyperboles)

Noun: Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.

I loosely class news media a form of entertainment. No, I don’t mean entertainment as in the latest promises from the clowns too many people elected to power, nor the antics of the winning tiger person. I mean the medium itself which ultimately is part of keeping us all informed of things which would otherwise be unknown to us.

It doesn’t take too much effort to realise news media and journalism has problems. Now we view what the journalist says with almost as much suspicion as the politician or car salesman they are interviewing.

News media too can be brought more in line as Positive Entertainment. I’d love the current news situation to change and today happened upon an article which gets right to the point on one of the problems in news media and journalism today. Ironically from a journalist, Aaron Kearney.

Hyperbole. Exaggeration. More to the point, how their style of writing harms impact in the long term so that major events are understated because they ran out of exaggerated terms. I would also add the cheapening of terms among the public as a whole.

I say too much that is said better already. Go read it

Soon it will be Anzac Day here in Australia and the ABC have done a Gallipoli special which I think is worth a squiz.