Topicality Is All In Journalism (A Todd Atticus Production): February 2012

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

EVERY RECORD SOUNDS THE SAME

Madonna pitches an accurate critique of her latest track as song lyrics.

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Sunday, 12 February 2012

TO SPEAK A SINGLE LANGUAGE IS TO BE ENCLOSED IN ONE CULTURAL POSSIBILITY

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has released figures for the amount of applicants to UK university courses during the past year. The data indicates that the amount of applicants is down 7.4% overall. Amongst the general decline in many courses, applications to study European language are down by 11.2 per cent, those to non-European languages are down by 21.5 per cent. Are these figures adequate to mark a growing dissinterest among the British toward learning modern foreign languages?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/will-hutton-learn-foreign-languages

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Friday, 10 February 2012

ANALYSE, WRITE COHERENTLY, THINK QUANTITATIVELY: VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS CAN DEVELOP ALL THE SKILLS LISTED ABOVE

The government have acted on the advice delivered in last year's Wolf Review. Their decision to stop many vocational qualifications having GCSE equivalence will soon be coming into force. Read closely some comments by Alison Wolf and pair them against the government agenda. Is this move heavy-handed?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/31/gcses-gcse-equivalent-qualifications-reduced

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OF COURSE REWARDS FOR FAILURE ARE UNACCEPTABLE

George Osborne speaks some truths and makes other, more fanciful, claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16937804

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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

YOU CAN'T STRIP AWAY A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT

A poignant phrase. A federal court in California have deemed the state-wide ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/prop-8-california-gay-marriage-ban-struck-down

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IF POLICY IS NOT BASED ON PRINCIPLE BUT INDIVIDUALS, THE GOVERNMENT WILL CARRY ON BEING BLOWN IN THE WIND.

Ex-chancellor Alistair Darling suggests that the Government's decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood is nothing more than tokenism and rash misdirection.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/uk-politics-video/9054486/Alistair-Darling-Fred-Goodwin-annulment-leaves-a-bad-taste.html

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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.