UFC is suing the local soccer team Umeå FC for copyright issue. Umeå FC is the soccer team in my city and it is called “UFC” for short (Umeå Football Club). . . . #umeå #ufc #umeåfc #soccer #mma #martialsarts #sports #football #kimurase #journalism #johlor80 #mmajournalist #mmawriter #mixedmartialart #umea #sweden (at Umeå, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbzx3rtDdCW/?utm_medium=tumblr
Shattle is a survival game that take place in Sweden during the cold war. I got the chance to ask the developers a few questions in the wake of the release of the trailer this weekend. The whole article can be found on FZ.se. The trailer is set to the tones of the Luleå-based band Raised Fist. . @aurorapunks @raisedfist_official @alexanderhagman . . . #shattle #videogames #videogame #sweden #boden #raisedfist #spel #games #journalism #johlor80 #article #interview #pcspel #pcgames #swedishdevelopers #gametrailer #5fortress #coldwar #1970 #sverige #metal #lovemywork #luleå (på/i Umeå, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWTguxSMLW0/?utm_medium=tumblr
SUMMER VACATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: I attended the annual Journalism Education Association’s Adviser’s Institute and, as always, left with some valuable information. These are some tools one presenter recommended for use in the classroom. I can definitely use these in my English I classes.
We shall never return to social sanity til we begin at the beginning. We must start where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child.
As it is, we begin where history ends, or, rather, where disjointed journalism ends. We stop suddenly with the accidental truncation of today’s news; and judge everything by the particular muddle of the moment. Ours is a sociology of snapshots; and snapshots always fix human figures in postures not only silly but stiff.
- G.K. Chesterton, May 3, 1919, Illustrated London News
Here’s a headline: Push Girl Takes Journalism By Storm. To get the full scoop, let us introduce you to Katharine Graham. Tasked with taking over “The Washington Post” in 1963, Katharine boldly stepped up to the challenge. Along the way, she brought home quite the array of awards for the mantelpiece, and helped take down a US President in the process. The person that ran the paper during Watergate deserves some of the credit beyond just the reporters, don’t you think? The truth is that all of her accomplishments she did in a male-dominated industry where sometimes even her own employees didn’t accept her. Would it be farfetched to speculate she may be one of the inspirations behind Millennium Trilogy character, Erika Berger. Yes or no, our op-ed says: Never mess with a push girl!
Tell your friend she’s got a little Katharine Graham in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
I won the ‘Media & Design Award’ at Graduate Fashion Week last night for my Thorn Magazine. Holy shit!!! Here I am with the amazing judges, Jefferson Hack and Melanie Rickey. I’m still in shock.
NYRB is the North American distributor for the UK publisher Notting Hill Editions, who put out beautiful, clothbound pocket-sized books. This fall, they release a unique travel memoir of the Amazon from the neurologist A.J. Lees and a collection of journalism from Winnie-the-Pooh’s A.A. Milne.
As a child, Andrew Lees became obsessed with the British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in search of a lost Amazonian city. Years later, he followed in his footsteps—and discovered Fawcett’s quest was far stranger than he ever could have anticipated. Brazil That Never Was is part travelogue and part memoir, and a testament to the pitfalls of nostalgia.
BeforeWinnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne was a notable writer of plays, novels, verse, and journalism. Happy Half Hours collects the best of his articles for the humor magazine Punch, ranging from the year 1910 to 1952 and on everything from lost hats and umbrellas, tennis, dogs, and faulty geysers to cheap cigars.
Have you ever read sensational tabloid headlines such as these?
“Abraham Lincoln was a woman!”
“Teen’s Hair Changes Color… With her Mood”
“Man’s head explodes in barber’s chair”
“Severed leg hops back to hospital”
Well, these are examples of yellow journalism in tabloid headlines.
So, what is yellow journalism?
It is a type of journalism that produces stories without adequate or accurate information. Scandal-mongering and exaggeration are some of the techniques used here. Like everything else, yellow journalism has a history too!
In the late 19th century, yellow journalism had nothing to do with sensationalism. It was named after a popular cartoon strip that was published in Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper, New York World.
The cartoons, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, were about life in the New York City slum called ‘Hogan’s Alley’. Like Calvin and Snoopy, it was the ‘Yellow Kid’ who was the most well-known character from the comic strip then.
Ultimately, New York World gained popularity. William Hearst was another major publisher belonging to that period. After the rise in sales of New York World, Hearst wanted to hire Outcault away from Pulitzer. This battle over the ‘Yellow Kid’ gave rise to the term yellow journalism.
What happened then?
Cuba had long been a Spanish colony and the revolutionary movement intensified during the 1980s. The two publishers, Hearst and Pulitzer began devoting their attention to the Cuban struggle for independence. Sometimes, they accentuated the harshness of the Spanish rule! In 1898, an American battleship sunk in Havana Harbor.
The naval vessel had been sent there to diffuse the tension between the States and Spain. On the night of February 15, an explosion tore through the ship’s hull and it went down.
Although initial reports by the colonial government had suggested that explosion had occurred on board, Hearst and Pulitzer published rumors of plots to sink the ship! And that is how they triggered the Spanish-American war!
The dramatic style of yellow journalism contributed to creating public support for the Spanish-American war, a war that ultimately expanded the reach of the USA.
What started as a comic strip, ended as a war? That is the power of yellow journalism.
It all began with Högertrafikomläggningen, Swedish for “the right-hand traffic reorganisation”.
On 3 September 1967, Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. The change mainly took place at night, but in Stockholm and Malmö all traffic stopped for most of the weekend while intersections were reconfigured.
So sweet was the resulting city air that weekend that environmental enthusiasm went sky high. It was a moment that would change the world.
Three months later Sweden, citing air and other pollution, asked the UN to hold the first-ever international environmental conference, initiating a process that would lead to a groundbreaking gathering in its capital in 5 June 1972, the 50th anniversary of which will be marked next week. This was the beginning of a long and slow struggle to find and agree global solutions to these newly understood global environment problem. Twenty years later, the Rio conference would follow in the same month, kicking off UN climate summits, the most recent of which was held in Glasgow last autumn.
And yet critical mistakes were made at this early juncture. Progress, as we know, has been glacial in the years since. Now, looking back at the first steps on that journey, it’s hard not to see that, although in there were so many issues the conference got right, there were also some crucial issues it got wrong.
The Stockholm conference – held in the city’s Folkets Hus the site of both a former prison and a theatre specialising in farces – gave green issues international import. In the 1960s, environmental issues had seemed local, not global. In Britain, for example, the last of the great London smogs killed 750 people in 1962, while tragedy struck four years later in Aberfan, Wales, with the collapse of a colliery spoil tip. In Japan, people wore masks against air pollution. There was drought in the Sahel. And in 1969 a passing train ignited oil in Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, setting it ablaze.
But this was also a decade in which there were early stirrings of revolt against the environmental destruction. The World Wildlife Fund launched in 1961 with a special issue of the Daily Mirror carrying the front-page headline “DOOMED”. Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring savaged pesticides the next year, and in 1969 an undergraduate Prince Charles first entered the fray, lobbying the then British prime minister, Harold Wilson, about Atlantic salmon at an event at the Finnish embassy.
But these were isolated voices, denounced and dismissed by the powerful. Carson said the US chemical industry wanted to return to “the dark ages” where “insects and vermin would once again inherit the Earth”. The then US agriculture secretary wrote to former US President Dwight Eisenhower, saying that since Carson was unmarried, despite being “attractive”, she was “probably a communist”.
The plan for an international conference in Stockholm initially had so little support that it was dismissively called “the Swedish matter” at the UN. It took two years of lobbying, against UK and French opposition, before the general assembly backed the proposal. As it happened, this (January 1970) was when I was told by a far-sighted editor at the Yorkshire Post that we needed to be covering this stuff and my long stint on the environment beat – the longest in the world as far as I am aware – began.
