Fellow blogger U-En Ng is a columnist for the New Sunday Times THE latest biennial survey of US attitudes to media by the Pew Research Centre confirms again what many of us have refused to admit: newspapers continue to decline while an increasing number of people cite television (specifically cable television and particularly Fox and [...]
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Green Purchasing Asia
Green Purchasing Asia is an online magazine that is focused on the steadily growing green energy movement across Asia. This July, their second published issue became available for free download from their website (find the link here). It featured an intriguing cover story on India and the country’s drive to expand its renewable energy technologies [...]
In defence of Em
Recently my learned friend and colleague sent me a link to a Slate article about the tendency of writers to abuse the long dash, with the note “are we guilty of this?” Absolutely not, I thought. Dashes have a very specific purpose, namely to mark the presence of parentheses. There are three other marks for [...]
When words change meaning
Poynter Online has posted a very interesting article about the “semantic shift” through which the meaning of a word changes drastically. Some original meanings that might raise an eyebrow or two include “enthusiastic” (overzealous, misdirected religious emotion) and “girl” (a young person of either sex—in the 14th century). Try to do the little exercise at [...]
World Press Freedom Day 2011
If there is one thing I remember from my time as a communications student in university, it’s that the Press is the Fourth Estate. It is the agent that keeps the government and those in power accountable for their actions to the public. This is done through the publication and distribution of (hopefully) accurate and [...]
