I had vowed not to write another story about Gary Lineker, but here we are. As readers will know, the ex-footballer has been embroiled in rows about his social media postings on various world events, not least the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terror group Hamas. This has all finally caught up with the […]
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Women’s football media has been the centre of a storm in recent days. Last week, former Lionesses star Eni Aluko appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme and criticised Ian Wright for his wide-ranging coverage of women’s football.  Aluko said she’d worked with Wright “a long time and, you know, I think he’s a
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The Snooker World Championship is currently taking place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Set aside the skill of the players for a moment. The TV coverage coming from the famous venue is truly wonderful. The darts, which I also love is about noise and partying. By contrast, the Snooker World Championship is about calm
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YouTube turned 20 yesterday. That first video, Me at the Zoo, is a low-quality clip about elephants. It did not suggest that it was to spawn a behemoth. However, two decades on, that is exactly what the now Google-owned video platform is. The first thing to note is that it is a quite staggering achievement
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In February 2022, I announced that I was going solo after three great years at The Mac Observer. (Big love to all those guys still.) It was there that I really started to write about streaming, although I’d previously covered the media. Much as I miss the TMO crew, running The Addition these last three
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We have made it to April and there is a hint of spring in the air. That has made me feel nice and generous, so this is a rare occasion on which everyone can read the full newsletter about the crossover of culture, media and sport for free. If you want more, please sign up
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Megyn Kelly has had a fascinating media career, but her latest iteration as a pro-Trump podcaster is somewhat depressing.
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On March 23, 2020, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson looked down the barrel of a camera and uttered the words: From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home. The UK’s first full COVID-19 lockdown had begun. Five years on, many of us have tried
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To state the obvious, Lionel Messi’s arrival at Inter Miami in 2023 was a big deal. It mattered to both the MLS and its media partner Apple, which owns the global rights to the league for a decade and used the World Cup winner as a key way to sell its Season Pass subscription. However,
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Last night, (midnight UK time) the NWSL, America’s domestic women’s soccer football league, kicked off. The format is fairly straightforward and is typical of US sports. Fourteen teams play each other home and away and then there is a playoff to decide the champions. (Orlando Pride won last year.) The media setup is interesting though.
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