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Media Circus: Golden age of Magazines

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Graydon Carter’s brilliant raconteur of his own life of how he made his mark as one of society’s most talented editors and shapers of culture. Carter born in 1949, arrived in New York from Canada with little more than a suitcase, a failed literary magazine in his past and a keen sense of ambition. He landed a job as a floating writer at Time magazine in New York, selling 4 million copies a week, with salaries and expenses to match. After five years he was reassigned to Time’s sister magazine, Life, which “had become a zombie monthly, close to dead”. He … Continue reading Media Circus: Golden age of Magazines

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One person’s future is predicted on another’s fatal misfortune

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On Sunday, July 30, 2017, and nine-year-old Keira Ball is on her way to parkour with her mum and brother when two tonnes of truck collide with their car. Even after roadside CPR  and surgery to stem the bleeding, two days later Keira is declared brain-dead, Yer her perfect heart keeps beating on life support. Her two sisters perform a devotional last rites by painting her nails orange and brushing out her golden hair while their parents are still a patient in intensive care.  Max Johnson, also just nine-years old breathless with heart failure and sworn into despair from waiting … Continue reading One person’s future is predicted on another’s fatal misfortune

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Freedom for Julian Assange

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WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange, after seven years of self-imposed confinement and then  five years of enforced detention – was months in the making but uncertain to last.  In the end, diplomacy, politics and law that allowed Julian Assange to take off in a private jet from London’s Stanstead airport on Monday, enroute to the Northern Mariana Islands under a a plea deal with the White house to appear before a judge to admit leaking American Military secrets before flying on to Australia and freedom. In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) said the possibility of a plea deal “first … Continue reading Freedom for Julian Assange