Media – My Blog Thing

Tonight, in the Night Garden…

In the Night Garden has been a staple of British children’s bedtimes for almost twenty years. Created and produced by the same people who brought us Teletubbies, it is every bit as odd as you’d expect for a calming, soothing bedtime show aimed at preschoolers made by those folk.

Like many kid’s shows, it doesn’t take much adjusting of the angle you’re viewing from to see things in a different light, and when my son was younger, but old enough that we’d seen every episode a few times, I started tweeting some of those odd perspectives. Since Twitter was always fleeting, and is now what it’s become, I decided I wanted to collect them here.

Illusion of Choice

This infographic seems to be doing the rounds today. It is mostly US-centric but a similar sort of thing is present in our own media, albeit not to quite the same alarming extent. This is, however, the very thing that The Whimpering Pen, had I ever gotten it off of the ground, was going to be highlighting (it may return as an Xmas project, who knows, but since the phone hacking scandal it doesn’t seem as ground-breaking).

You might have guessed this wasn’t going to be an entirely self-penned post owing to the fact that it has catchy headline for once.

[via The Loop]