Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category
Subtext
Are the Russians getting ready to invade us? There was a Russian submarine in the English channel on the weekend. The Royal Navy ship, HMS Somerset spotted it off the east coast of the UK on Friday morning and followed it through the Strait of Dover. Last month, Somerset’s sister ship HMS Sutherland escorted two […]
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If you drive a diesel car in Britain you could be paid up to £2000 by the government to scrap it and buy a petrol powered car instead. It’s part of government plans to tackle pollution, according to newspaper reports. Once again the government is blaming YOU for a problem THEY created. Buses, trucks, trains […]
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Tags: Blog, Diesl, Enviroment, fatberg, feedback, General Election, Google, Grean Party, Inspiration, Internet, Media, News, Politics, Radio, scrapage, VAT
Keith Vaz Being Probed
The Labour Party will be asking Keith Vaz a lot of questions so they know what to do next. The Mirror is reporting that the Labour politician, a married father of two, is leading a double life paying young male escorts for sex. The paper says that in a rendezvous last month, he offered […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, Keith Vaz, Labour, Radio
Mack Nuggets
Here’s what I’ve been up to on BOBfm lately… Inappropriate laughter; A bizarre wrong number; A leopard in the hotel room; If it’s got boobs or wheels, it’ll give you problems; Why Nancy won’t go back to London; 20 years since Oasis played Knebworth; Why the Daily Mail is great; Show us your tats; Is […]
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Blame Storming
Reading the Daily Mail is great because it reminds you that nothing is your fault. If you’re fat, it’s because supermarkets are promoting obesity by allowing ‘special offers’ on fizzy drinks. If your kids are fat, it’s not because YOU feed them too much, it’s because there are too many fast food places near schools. […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, body image, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, bully, Daily Mail, fast food, fat shaming, gastric band, Graham Mack, NHS, Radio, responsibility, television
Have I Got News For You!
If you watch the news you’ll see that there’s a lot of bad stuff going on in the world right now. If that’s bringing you down, it might help if you remember this; There’s an unwritten rule in newsrooms, “If it bleeds, it leads”. Bad news gets bigger ratings and more clicks than good news. […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Bad News, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Good News, Graham Mack, News, Radio, television
“Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?” That quote comes from Howard Stern in his movie Private Parts. Maybe it’s a broadcasting thing, since I got into radio, I’ve constantly been misunderstood, right from the very start. In 1993, I […]
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Tags: 2PK, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Champion Post, Graham Mack, Howard Stern, News, NSW, Parkes, Radio, Sydney, Travel
April Fools Day
Don’t believe everything you see, hear and read today! I thought you might like to listen to what we did on BOB fm last year… Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you want to respond to anything I’ve written, tweet me; @GrahamMack
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The Complete Beatles Songs – The stories behind every track written by the Fab Four. By Steve Turner
This Craic appears in issue 220 of the Liverpool fanzine, Red All Over The Land. I have to admit that when John Pearman, the editor of Red All Over The Land asked me to review a new Beatles book for the fanzine, I was expecting something a bit lighter. I don’t mean the content, I […]
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Tags: A Hard Day's Write, AFTRS, Aircheck, Beatles, Blog, Bob Dylan, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Craic, Graham Mack, John Pearman, Liverpool, Menlove Avenue, Red All Over The Land, Smokey Robinson, Steve Turner
Let Them Eat Birthday Cake!
If you were invited to someone’s birthday party, how would you feel if they asked you to pay £150 to be there? That’s what the Queen is doing for her 90th. I agree with Rosie Millard from The Independent, who’s written an excellent article about this PR disaster. The Queen is “inviting” along all of […]
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In this one we talk about David Bowie. Let’s hope people start getting his name right! Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and tweet a link. If you’d like to talk to me about it, call me on +44 1438 422106 between 6 […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Auckland, Blog, BOB fm, Bournemouth, Bowie, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, David Bowie, Graham Mack, Name, New Zealand, News, Radio, western Springs
State of Confusion
Prince George continues to do normal things that any two year old does and the media continues to be amazed by this. This week, we were bombarded with pictures of his first day at nursery. It’s like that movie The Truman Show, where a bloke’s life, from the moment of his birth, is filmed by thousands […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, https://republic.org.uk/, Radio
Phoney Predictions
It’s not easy to predict the the future. The Met Office have all kinds of scientific equipment including satellites to help predict the future and they’re rubbish at it. They predicted a hot dry summer for England. We actually got one of the coldest wettest. In the autumn, they predicted 38 days of Arctic winter. […]
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UN-Changed Climate
A couple of years ago, Prince Charles visited Stevenage. He was chauffeured around in his own personal Range Rover, which drove up from London. Charles wasn’t in it at the time, he flew to Stevenage in a helicopter. This week, Prince Charles gave a speech at the UN Climate Change Conference and told a room […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, carbon, Climate Change, emmissions, Graham Mack, hypocrites, London, Paris, Prince Charles, Radio, Range Rover, Republican, Skype, Stevenage, UN Climate Conference
Back Fire?
We’re all angry about what happened in Paris. Do we always make the best decisions when we’re angry? How many times have you looked back on a situation and realised what you SHOULD have done? Six out of ten Britons want the UK to bomb ISIS in Syria. That’s according to a ComRes poll, published […]
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Tags: Daily Mail, IRA, ISIS, Military, Paris, RAF, Sinai, Syria, Terrorism, Tony Blair, war
If you still buy a physical newspaper, you are either old or don’t have access to the internet. I can’t remember the last time I bought one, or even read one on actual paper. I get all of my news online. I realised this week that I’ve done the same with radio. In the car, […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, AM, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, broadsheet, DAB, FM, Graham Mack, Internet, Newpapers, Northern Echo, Radio, Tabloid
Radio is the theatre of the mind. Richie Firth used to present travel reports on 2CRFM from the streets of Dorset and Hampshire dressed as a chicken. I can’t remember exactly how that all started but I know that when I presented the Breakfast Show there in 1998, “Richie The Travel Chicken” was very popular. […]
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