IF THE DAILY MAIL IS SO WORRIED ABOUT THE SEXUALISATION OF CHILDREN, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS HIT 'DELETE'
Charlie Brooker makes some interesting points in a piece in today's Guardian. Whether one can be quite as blasé as he about the dangers posed by exposing children to images of a sexual nature is a matter of opinion; his comments regarding the hypocrisy of the Daily Mail are undeniably true however.
How the Daily Mail can point fingers at broadcasters and celebrities while its website openly contains graphic examples of the type of image they object to is a clear case of double standards (putting it lightly). The sinister issue of the Mail's false accusations directed at ITV for broadcasting material that it did not is simply icing on the cake.
They suffered another scathing critique last week too, where this same publication was labelled in the House of Commons by speaker John Bercow as a "bigoted comic". Whether or not such comments should have been made in Parliament is a different issue of course; but it sure is a good quote for a poster...
Topicality Is All In Journalism is the distillation of current affairs, news articles and items of cultural note into poster designs and written commentary. It has been devised to promote the level-headed and rational sentiments made by others in reaction to current happenings – be them local, national, international or universal.
The aim is to have a constant stream of visual output that draws from the range of topics being discussed in the public realm. The posters are designed to play with the conventions of advertisements and other public visual material as a means of presenting unexpected motifs within a mostly commercialised realm of printed communication output.
Visitors are actively encouraged to participate by promoting the opinions they feel an affinity with by printing copies of the posters to display in their area.
The Topicality posters will soon be available to order as digital prints and to download as high resolution digital files in a not-for-profit capacity.
This project is run in-conjunction with the National Diplomatic Rhetoric’s ongoing poster campaign to encourage public thought and debate through material that attempts at a neutral and honest communication of facts and ideas.
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