Are you a student at the University of Westminster who is suffering from depression, anxiety or any mental health issue?
Did you know that the counselor is only open three days a week? Or that you have to fill in a four-page form to speak to the counselor? After trying to contact the faculty counselor and denied to speak with us, we decided to ask the students what they thought about this shocking news. Is a four-page form really helping students with mental health issues?
Have you ever seen your teacher play the harmonica?
At the University of Westminster, the Mad Fest took place. Students and teachers decided to contribute and play several songs.
Last Sunday, on the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony, Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that the film Lapland had won best picture instead of Moonlight.
Beatty explained to the Mail that he had been confused when handed a card that read “Emma Stone Lalaland” and held on to it for some time afterwards so no one could accuse him of the mistake.
Emma Stone, the winner of the night described the moment as one of the most horrible moments of her life.
Song: city of stars, Lalaland
Other shocking moments in Oscars history:
1.Marlon Brando declines his Oscar:
Marlon Brando won the Oscar for his outstanding performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, but he declined to attend the ceremony.
2.Adrien Brody kisses Halle Berry:
After his best actor win for The Pianist in 2003, Adrien Brody unexpectedly kissed the actress Halle Berry.
3.Jennifer Lawrence falls down
After winning an oscar for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, Jennifer Lawrence was so shocked that she fell down midway up the stairs to collect her Oscar.
According to the Guardian, London “dominates estimates of national homelessness newly published by Shelter. London’s homelessness count ascends 16% compared to last year, but of course, this is no surprise. Shelter shares the fact that 170,000 people are homeless in London today.
According to the BBC the homelessness charity crisis said it was rising at an “appalling rate”. John Sparkes, the chief executive of crisis, said: “Behind these statistic there are thousands of desperate people, sleeping in doorways, bin shelters and parks-anywhere they can find to stay safe and escape the elements. Rough sleeping ruins lives. Our recent research has shown how rough sleepers are 17 times more likely to be victims of violence. This is no way for anyone to live.”
After this, we decided to interview the residents of Harrow to discover what they thought about this tough subject.
Here are some of the areas with the most rough sleepers:
Image: from the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38719087
He’s been described as ‘shameless’ by The Sun, after comparing himself to UNICEF veteran Audrey Hepburn. We are of course talking about the David Beckham email hacking scandal exposing his desperate bid for a knighthood.
He is seen on the cover of today’s paper with the headline: “BECK’S C-WORD FURY AT ‘SIR SNUB’. This is reference to the fact that he allegedly used the expletive to describe members of the honours committee as ‘unappreciative’, after he was overlooked in the list.
The emails, were published by the Football Leaks website after Beckham’s advisers refused to pay the hackers, reports Tom Bryant at the Daily Mirror.
The Mirror also reports that: Whitehall honours chiefs are blaming Beckham ’s personal tax affairs for the decision not to give him a knighthood.
In 2013, Olympics chief Lord Sebastian Coe recommended Beckham for a knighthood but because of his controversial investments in the Ingenious Media investment scheme, the honour chiefs decided against honouring the footballer.
The Mail Online have in particular focused on Beckham’s Instagram account, where he has posted several images praising the queen and plugging his involvement with Buckingham Palace.
For the Queen’s birthday on the 11th of June, he wrote: ‘Happy birthday your Majesty… So proud to have a Queen that does everything for the love of our country.’
Beckham has dismissed the reports and has claimed the emails have been doctored. In an opinion piece posted by The Guardian, they say: “The impression garnered by any reader is of a vain, jealous, greedy man whose charitable work is part of a PR campaign to get a gong.”
The footballer isn’t the sole the celebrity to become a victim of online hacking. Here’s a list of the top five hacking stories:
This week, a man was convicted for sexually assaulting a 19 year old girl. After this, the BBC news beat published a survey in which 41% of men between the ages of 18-24 said that if a woman was drunk and dresses a short skirt she deserved to be assaulted.
We spoke to the students of the University of Westminster to get their opinion about this shocking statistics.
As an aspiring journalist, I crave to write about what I’m passionate about; film. My aim is to work in a specialised film magazine in which I’m able to review the latest films and give a critical opinion about it. I would start by reviewing films in my own blog so that I can practice my analytical and writing skills. My personal blog would not just give me the opportunity to improve my writing but also to get used to writing every day and have a routine. I would then search for a job in a film magazine.
A magazine would give me the chance to write about a specific and specialised subject which I would dominate. My aspiration is to work in magazines that I’ve always appreciated, such as Film Comment or Little White Lies. These types of magazines are the type of work I’m looking for, since they just don’t review and criticise a film but they talk about movies as a world apart: interviewing actors and directors, recommending the best films of the year, comparing films… The magazine Little White Lies is a magazine specifically made for cinematographic addicts and the fact that the reader has to pay to read every individual article makes it even more exclusive. I also enjoy the fact that these types of magazines never usually talk about commercial movies, but independent films, since it’s a specialised magazine.
One of the reasons I chose to analyse films is due to the work of the prominent film critic Robbie Collin. Robin Collin is a film critic for the Telegraph newspaper and his work is the perfect example of what I would like to become in the future. Eloquence, wit and charming sarcasm are the basics that Robbie Collin uses in all of his film reviews. The first time I read one of his reviews was when he reviewed the film “Joy”in 2015 starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by David O’ Russell.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/14/joy-review-jennifer-lawrences-brilliant-fairy-tale/
I was immediately captivated by Collin’s unconventional insight and I would even dare to say sensitivity. I applaud him for his ability to relate to the character and analyse meticulously the film and the director’s work. The film was based on the true story of the business woman Joy Mangano and Collin perfectly knew how to portray the films strengths and weaknesses in the most fluent and sharpest way possible. I really admired Collin’s capacity to use metaphors to describe and analyse the film. Collin states:”It soon becomes clear Joy chose the name of her mop well:her life, let alone her kitchen floor, is in need of divine intervention.”Collin uses characteristic elements of the film to make a point about the actor´s work and the film itself.
Robbie Collin: “Russell has lumbered his heroes with exasperating families before, most memorably in Silver Linings Playbook and his boxing film, The Fighter”. I noticed that Collin,as most of the film critics, has knowledge about the director’s and actor’s previous work, which is undeniably important to write a good film review.It is clear that to obtain enough knowledge about the film I’m writing about I would need to have a significant cinematographic awareness and also do an abundant amount of research.
Another journalist which I admire is the film critic Peter Bradshaw. Ingenious sarcasm is an element that I praise in a film critic since it provides humour and it’s much more entertaining for the reader to read, and Bradshaw is definitely a journalist that enjoys using sarcasm in his pieces of work.”I bet playing the game is much more exciting. But then getting Fassbender to slap a coat of Dulux on the wall of his high-tech prison cell and monitoring the progressive moisture-loss would be more exciting” says Bradshaw about the film Assassin’s Creed. Despite the fact that I consider this piece of work not one of the best ones of Bradshaw, I still believe that he has the sills that I need to obtain.
To become a successful film critic as Robbie Collin and Peter Bradshaw I need to acquire certain skills. Fluency, ability to analyse and perseverance to become a specialist about the subject are crucial skills that I need to work on to become the journalist I want to be. For this, I would need to become a passionate reader, but not just about film reviews but also newspapers, books, blogs… Since it is indispensable to own a certain knowledge about everything to write about any type of subject that the film might relate to. When I finally acquire this skills my objective would be to work in a magazine.I hope that I would be able to interview the actors and then review their work at the office. Hopefully, with time, I would like to create my own film magazine since I’m more interested in generating ideas and taking an editorial role.
Matt Thompson wrote an article about the different types of journalists and what can we learn from them. The four types of journalists are: The Storyteller, the Newshound, the Systems Analyst and the Provocateur. As a film critic I would consider myself as a Provocateur. The Provocateur has “originality and insight” and makes the audience think in different ways .They encourage them to think critically about it. “Provocateurs are particularly good at posing questions, poking at conventional wisdom in a way that encourages us to think critically about it”. The provocateur usually makes the reader ask questions to himself and wonder their knowledge is wrong or right; a movie critic can do that.A film critic not just reviews or evaluates a film but makes the audience think even more about it and that’s what I want to do in the future.
During my journalism course I would like to choose modules that help me improve my writing skills. Modules like “specialist journalism” (I would then choose literary journalism) would give me the skills that I need to become a prominent film critic. I would also like to choose the module of “pitch, produce, publish: creating modern magazines” because, as I mentioned before, I’m interested in generating ideas and taking an editorial role and I think this module would help me. At the end of the year I would choose the module of “specialist journalism” focussing on arts and entertainment.I also think that they type of media/journalism I consume is quite important to help me understand how I need to write for the different types of platform. This is the reason why I read most of the film magazines and the most important newspapers such as the Guardian, the Telegraph and also the Independent Eye. Despite the fact that I want to work reviewing and analyzing films I still consider that I need to consume every type of journalism, including Tv shows, radio, websites… Despite the fact that I want to become a journalist that it specialised on a certain subject, a journalist still needs to have a wide knowledge of what is going on in the world. I would be unable to review a film about the second world war without a certain knowledge about it.
I must say that I follow on Twitter several film critics and actors. I believe that is important to consume all types of journalism and undoubtedly Twitter is a contemporary platform to consume journalism. If I had the chance I would like to do my work placement during my third year at university in a newspaper like the guardian or the telegraph, but specially in a film magazine.
One week after Trump’s unforeseen victory, the grand majority of Americans have accepted Trump as the US president for the next four years but Clinton’s supporters firmly believe the republican candidate’s victory is illegitimate according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
Undoubtedly, this past days have been quite challenging for the democratic candidate especially after becoming the centre of attention of all newspapers. Clinton has been analysed meticulously by the media. She has been described as “inconsolable” by the Daily Mail or as “America’s Rahul Gandhi” by Quartz.
After reading the Metro, it is undeniable that they present Clinton as the true winner of the US election. Despite the lack of information and analysis in newspapers as the Metro or the Daily Mail, they clearly make the readers wonder who is the authentic winner. The Daily Mail stands out by the use of quotes by Clinton instead of providing relevant information.
The Telegraph seems to have forgotten about the democratic candidate and focussed on the actual president of the United States since Trump has become the centre of attention of the media. The Guardian has clearly shown Clinton as a strong leader but hasn’t shown any support towards her.
"Don't call Clinton a weak candidate:it took decades of scheming to beat her." Rebecca Solnit, the Guardian.
After Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat, the democrat candidate blames FBI director James Comey for Donald Trump’s victory in the US election.
Clinton’s assumptions were made on Saturday in a call with senior campaign donors in which Clinton confirms that Comey’s interference in the election had provoked her defeat. Apparently, FBI director Comey sent a letter to Congress declaring that the FBI had unprotected emails related to its earlier investigation into her use of a private server as secretary of state.
"There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful...our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum." Hillary Clinton
The second day after Clinton’s defeat the media analysed Clinton’s and Trump’s voters and compared them. Four days after the US election the media analyses Clinton’s reaction after her defeat. It seems that most newspapers have taken a hostile approach about the subject, highlighting Clinton’s dissatisfaction. Newspapers as the Guardian and the Telegraph have exposed Clinton’s accusations to Comey in an objective and clear way, while the Mirror and the Daily Mail implied that the democrat candidate was just looking for someone to blame.
The Daily Mail subtly suggests that Clinton was just looking for an explanation, avoiding any type of detailed analysis about the FBI’s investigation or Clinton’s phone call in which she accuses FBI director Comey. I’ve immediately noticed how the Guardian and the Telegraph tried to be impartial with the democrat candidate while the Daily Mail revealed their objections about Clinton.
R Pacheco 