This week Who’s taking on the online hackers and pirates? Will Big Tech finally cough up for news?
Media Moment of the Week: Ya boi in Hanoi
Tempted as I was to feature that cat lawyer this week, I think perhaps, to borrow Michael Gove’s words, this country has had enough of Zoom fails. Instead, here’s some viral internet cringe of the sort we all thought had gone extinct somewhere in the vicinity of 2014.
US ambassador to Vietnam Dan Kritenbrink just released this rap song to wish everyone in Vietnam a Happy Lunar New Year.The full original video can be found on the Facebook of US Embassy in Hanoi. pic.twitter.com/ERAi9SJDAf Khang Vu (@KhangXVu) February 8, 2021
This week How Redditors beat the market at its own game Do influencers need a rebrand?
Media Moment of the Week: Das ist Numberwang!
This week’s media moment is one that journalists the world over would probably rather forget but, being the intrepid media reporter that I am, I’m not going to let it slide.
On Monday German business paper Handelsblatt breathlessly reported that the Oxford/Astrazeneca Covid vaccine was just eight per cent effective in over 65s, sparking general panic and hair pulling. Hours later, however, it emerged that the paper appeared to have muddled up its numbers eight per cent was actually the proportion of over 65s taking part in the trials.
This week Music streaming royalties strike a bum note The BBC screw turns again
Media Moment of the Week
Elon Musk is no stranger to social media spats. His indiscretions on Twitter have moved stock markets, led to a highly-publicised defamation suit and landed him a $20m fine. So there was some surprise when Tesla listed a job advert for someone whose responsibilities included defending the brash billionaire from social media trolls.
Image: Twitter/@jaymboller
Tesla hastily removed this sentence following the online ridicule, but the position is still up for grabs. Perhaps the social media duties will be an unofficial extra…
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