A weekly roundup of talking points, sans effort

Thought for the week

“Four more years”. Barack Obama’s post election victory tweet – now the most popular tweet of all time.

Worth the paper it’s printed on

Light news success stories in the papers this week included…
… General fodder about Kim Kardashian made the headlines 31 times beating expenses shame Labour MP Denis MacShane who made the headlines 29 times.
… Self promotion queen Rhianna found herself at the centre of 34 news stories this week vs just one story on Equalities minister Helen Grat who altered an employment contract to deny her aide statutory sick pay ‘to save tax payers money’
… Tabloid favourite Chery Cole racked up 30 articles, 22 more than the 8 pieces found about the end of the Miners’ industrial action in South Africa which left 47 people dead
(Source: Journalisted)

Weekly high

Following news this week that Comet had gone into administration, Dixons hit the headlines with some Christmas cheer by announcing that it has delayed its annual festive recruitment drive to offer jobs to the stricken stores’ workers.
Dixons is recruiting 3,000 Christmas staff and has delayed the process by a week to allow Comet workers the chance to apply.

Weekly low

Channel 4 were forced to issue an apology this week after removing the word ‘gay’ from an episode of the Simpsons.
The word was censored during a re-run broadcast on Sunday afternoon after the broadcaster deemed that it was not suitable for a daytime audience.
Channel 4 explained the censorship as a ‘mistake by an overly cautious compliance checker.’

Things that might happen this week …

The world premiere of the last film in the Twilight franchise will take place in LA. Dozens of Twihard fans have already set up camp, with 2,200 people from across the world registered to set up home outside the downtown LA theatre ahead of the screening. Special activities, including a marathon screening of the four previous films, have been laid on to help pass the time.

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 13th November, Manchester – Northern Soho Networking Event @ Bohemia Bar; Come and get to know Manchester’s finest creatives including a speed networking session.
Friday 16th November, Manchester – Manchester Hackathon @ MadLab; FutureEverything, Open Data Manchester and Manchester City Council are looking for experts and innovators to hack, code, programme and experiment with the city’s sets of open data to build new applications and develop future services.
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