Among yesterday’s front pages was a data visualisation which, at first glance, was one of the most effective I’ve ever seen: the Independent had made an infographic showing yesterday’s £6bn budget cuts in context - as a fraction of a debt mountain.
Then I looked closer - and something’s very, very wrong.
Can you tell what it […]
Nature can be more cruel and disgusting than I could ever manage. On the upside, both zombies and mind control ACTUALLY EXIST. I’m feeling a whole confused swelter of emotions. To read about mind-controlling zombie worms, click here
More4 news runs nightly at 8pm for half an hour, on (shock horror) more4. Today they ran a feature on contradictory health advice in papers - the Indy today saying being fat is good for you versus last week’s obesity epidemic stuff. Laughably, this was presented as science’s failing, rather than the media’s. But yes.
They got a poor guy in from Sense about Science, and then inflated and deflated him (camerawork, obviously) at different points, while running a serious interview. The overall effect was completely, utterly, godawful. It wasn’t funny as the interview content was serious, and also completely undermined one’s ability to take the conversation seriously.
In conclusion, rubbish presentation by a usually-reasonable news show. Luckily, I’ll probably have been more-or-less the only person to watch it. The wonders of the digital age, eh?
