I admit, I get a lot of my news from the Internet. Particularly the international news. For one, we just don’t cover news the way they do in other countries; they give a different perspective. Also, I enjoy reading news coverage from the country the event(s) occur in, for a closer perspective.
And other times, its [...]
February 2, 2008
Categories: The News . Tags: carnival, censor, censorship, dancing, dancing Hitler, float, Hitler, Holocaust, Jews, Nirvana, rape, Rape Me, rape victims, Rio, samba, swastika, victims . Author: Lisa . Comments: 4 Comments
My classmate Ashley recently cancelled her trip to Venezuela because the Canadian government issued a warning about travelling there, citing it as an unsafe country.
Well, imagine reading this, then cancelling your travel plans to Canada?
Australian Government Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Travel Advisories: Travel Advice for Canada
haha, How hilarious is that?
Here are some [...]
January 25, 2008
Categories: The News . Tags: advisory, Australia, avalanche, avalanches, bush fire, bush fires, Canada, department of foreign affairs, forest fire, forest fires, government, PR, risk, tornado, tornadoes, travel, tsunami, tsunamis, venezuela, warning . Author: Lisa . Comments: 2 Comments
Obama recently said he felt he was running against both Clintons. Well, does it make it easier when one of them is sleeping?
Just when Hilary was really getting going…
I wonder what their PR people are doing right now?
January 22, 2008
Categories: Politics, The News . Tags: Bill, Clinton, Hilary, Martin Luther King Day, nodding off, Obama, sleeping . Author: Lisa . Comments: 6 Comments
About an hour ago I got a text from a friend in the entertainment industry: Heath Ledger. Dead.
Actor Heath Ledger dies at 28
You can’t make stuff like that up. I mean — who would? Heath Ledger? There are a lot of stars that have bad reputations for the party lifestyle, but [...]
January 22, 2008
Categories: The News . Tags: bad boy, bad boy reputation, Batman, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, drugs, Heath, Heath Ledger, joker, Ledger, movies, overdose, PR, promotion, publicity, reputation, sleeping pills, text, The Dark Knight, The Joker . Author: Lisa . Comments: 7 Comments
Wow. Corey Delaney’s personal PR is so bad, that it’s good. He speaks for himself (an’ how!) so I won’t comment too much on…what doesn’t need to be said.
You may be asking “how is this good?”
Well, he is now the quintessential partier. Believe it or not, he has made [...]
January 16, 2008
Categories: The News . Tags: apology, australian, party, teen . Author: Lisa . Comments: 7 Comments
I usually read Reuter’s Oddly Enough section to get a few chuckles in before I leave for the day. Most of the time, the articles tell of humourous happenings across the globe. Often, the topics are those which you shouldn’t really find funny, and yet you do. Other times, the news treads [...]
January 15, 2008
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