Siemens washing machine broken – flashing key symbol, child lock

Panic in the Techbelly family’s secret underground lair this morning when we thought the washing machine broken. A domestic disaster, given the child’s insistence of vomitting on or otherwise soiling everything we own, every day, more than once. Just so others can find this post: the broken washing machine was a Siemens xlp1400 (or maybe [...]

More on journalistic imbalance…

Thinking more about my previous post decrying British journalism for its imbalance in reporting arrests and not releases. So, I searched for ‘plymouth terror arrests’ on Google news: Yep. That’s 422 reports of the arrest, 10 of the release. Only 3 news organisations reported the releases, and all of them as local news. See the [...]

Raise a toast to British journalism!

I’m sure that in a newsroom somewhere there’s a journalist or editor with a bee in their inky bonnet about the arrest and subsequent release of 5 people in Plymouth last week. I’m sure there’s someone arguing that the release without charge of these five people should be plastered all over today’s newspapers. After all, [...]