A weekly roundup of media news and talking points, sans effort
Quote of the week
“Alright, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants. Uh. The cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that’s, that’s cool. And that’s pretty much all there is to say.” Jawed Karim, founder of YouTube, introducing the world’s first YouTube video in April 2005. How far we’ve come. Take a look at the whole thing, here…
Weekly High
OK, so usually we’d choose a cunning marketing campaign, or poignant PR push for our Weekly High. Instead, though, this week we couldn’t resist drawing attention to this rather wonderful Game of Thrones parody, featuring The Muppets, competing in the Game of Chairs. What else did you expect?
Weekly Low
In the latest American police controversy, 27-year-old Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore and loaded into the back of a van, injured but conscious. He was unloaded unconscious, suffering from a spinal injury and later died in hospital. Another unarmed black man involved in a questionable law enforcement incident, it goes without saying that the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3- the city’s own cop union- should have thought twice before describing the resulting protests as ‘a lynch mob’.
Stories to keep an eye on
Just in case you missed it
As this week’s Blagger’s Blog Quote of the Week suggests, YouTube has made it to 10 years young. As such we put together a list of five of the best, and five of the worst things about using the network. Take a look here.
