Media World

Peter Fiddick

Both `old' and `new' media spawn new offshoots. Flyposting for record labels etc.: cheap for the advertisers, not for the local councils who have to clean up afterwards.

It's Good to Txt

Peter Fiddick

My growing problem with our media world is much like that of the preGalilean flatearthers: puzzling out quite where its bounds are set. The whizzkid who's just joined the upper echelons of the BBC, one Ashley Highfield, does nothing to help. He's called director of new media, a post which, given the corporation's swift, successful, online presence (a source of controversy we'll address another time), is probably much needed. But one of his first utterances was to observe that he didn't much like the 'new media' label: 'It implies there is old media.'...

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