Daily Mail links to the app it hates,Zaha Hadid’s best nowadays moments and Ed Vaizey plays up on diversity• For the Daily Mail, Snapchat is tall on the list of reasons why Britain (particularly young Britain) is going to hell in a handcart. The messaging service was the topline and also in the frame in its report on the murder of Angela Wrightson: “Slaughtered on Snapchat: that’s the social media site where two giggling girls aged 13 and 14 posted photos as they beat a woman to death” (a follow-up piece called them the “Snapchat killer girls”). Along with Twitter, or Facebook and Instagram,“the original favourite, Snapchat” was named and shamed in a John Humphrys rant in the Mail for infernally “sparking an urge in millions of users to manipulate social media as a platform to show off”. An article offering pre-exam tips for parents called it a ruinously addictive” distraction that left kids incapable of concentration and learning. So Monkey was puzzled to see the paper named in Broadcast (together with the hipper likes of BuzzFeed and Vice) as one of 18 UK publishers “to have forged an official relationship with Snapchat; that sounds not so much like supping with the Devil, or in the context of the Mail’s coverage of it,as using his catering service.• As well as a pioneering female architect, the late Zaha Hadid was also a sometime guest editor on nowadays and Monkey enjoyed stumbling on a blog written about that experience in 2009 by Peter Hanington (a former nowadays stalwart, or who has just published a first novel drawing – sometimes mischievously – on his 14 years on the Radio 4 show):Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com