Alex Jones, the guy who wants to get Piers Morgan deported from the US for his views on gun control, was invited to Morgan’s show on Monday night. Jones lost the plot and ended up sounding like an even bigger nut-job than before. No one thought this possible.
A photo of an Indochinese tigress shaking herself dry has been crowned the Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 National Geographic photography competition.
Late on Friday, three-quarters of the British staff of Reader’s Digest were made redundant and it was confirmed that insolvency proceedings were to begin.
While the United States, of America, still grapples to come to terms with the worst ever school shooting in its history, a newspaper went and did the unthinkable yesterday.
Sorry girls, Hugh Hefner is off the market again! The Playboy boss married former playmate Crystal Harris in a small ceremony at the playboy mansion in Los Angeles on New Year’s eve. This after Harris called off their previous wedding only five days before the ceremony in December 2011.
Yes, you are indeed looking at a picture of Adolf Hitler at a Christmas party. It was taken on 18 December 1941 in Munich during World War II, at a time when the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grew ever clearer.
Following yesterday’s release of their annual Top 10 Photographs of the Year, TIME magazine has now also dropped a “2012: A Year of Deja Vu” gallery. In it, they have assembled a host of paired up images, each taken roughly a year apart, to reveal some uncanny similarities between them.
Did you know that 10% of all of the photographs made in the entire history of photography were taken last year? More than ever before, thanks in part to cell phone technology, the world is engaged with photography and communicating through pictures.
BizCommunity reports that it has learnt from reliable sources that Media 24′s SA Sports Illustrated is to fold. SASI has served as the premier South African sports magazine for decades. The magazine’s profile on Media 24′s website reads as follows: Sports Illustrated is the most successful and enduring multi-sport magazine in South Africa’s publishing history. [...]
One of 2oceansvibe’s favourite South Africans and former guest, Koos Bekker, conducted an interview with Summit TV and featured on BDlive. Click through to see what Koos has to say about newspapers, digital media, Naspers, their operations in China, and acquisitions.
An eNCA newsreader, Andrew Barnes, was verbally abused at Virgin Active Green Point on Tuesday morning. This after a fellow gym member took offense after seeing Barnes and his boyfriend kiss each other.
Angus T. Jones, the actor who portrays Jake Harper on Two and a Half Men, has had a pretty crazy week. First he appeared in an online video, urging fellow Christians to not watch Two and a Half Men anymore because it is “filth”. Jones then backtracked the next day, saying he is sorry, and revealed that he will be appearing in the next season of the show, because “God kinda pushed me into it.”
Global press agency AFP have released their selection of 2012′s best pictures. There are 99 in total, and together they capture every major news story of the year so far – from Mo Farah’s win at the Olympics, to police officers surrounding the bodies of the Marikana miners they shot just moments earlier.
Just as they did with that AXE for men commercial, the SABC has banned another TV ad, only drawing more attention to it in the first place. This time it’s a fish and chips ad, and wait ’til you hear the reasons they gave for the banning…
Yesterday we reported on Two and a Half Men actor, Angus. T. Jones, who, after converting to Christianity, told viewers to stop watching the show. He also went so far as to call Two and a Half Men “filth”.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Angus T. Jones, the kid who plays Jake Harper on “Two and a Half Men”, uploaded a video to YouTube yesterday. In it he describes the joys of discovering Christianity, and also tells viewers to “stop watching Two and a Half Men.”
“My task is completed. Tonight, exactly 37 years after reading my first TV news bulletin, I’m retiring.” With these words, South Africa’s veteran newsreader, Riaan Cruywagen, signed off for the last time during yesterday evening’s news bulletin. Cruywagen also took the time to thank the Afrikaans news editorial staff, bulletin editors Sandy Macdonald and Monica Ribbons, [...]
The Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards took place in the grand ballroom at the Westin in Cape Town last night. Apart from the prestigious Restaurant of the Year award, several other accolades were also dished out, including Chef of the Year, Best Steakhouse, and the Service Excellence Award.
Today is truly the end of an era. Veteran newsreader Riaan Cruywagen will be reading his last news bulletin on air this evening at 19h00 on SABC2.
This is the perfect example of how to quit your job in a classy way, while giving management the middle finger at the same time. Two news anchors from Maine in the US, Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio, signed off their broadcast on Tuesday night with their resignations.
Ah, America. How we love thee, let us count the ways. A paternity test taken by Michael Lohan, the results of which were revealed on the “The Trisha Goddard Show” (come back, Oprah) has shown that Lindsay Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, sowed his wild oats with another woman in an extra-marital affair in the mid [...]
By now you will be all too familiar with one Dirk Van Der Westhuizen’s controversial music videos which went viral after we featured them last week. Rolling Stone magazine interviewed him about the public outcry. Click to read it (includes links to the videos):
The annual World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the most striking news photographs from around the world. This year’s edition just opened at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank.
Jimi Matthews, acting head of the SABC’s news division, has told his staff that they may not use phrases like “Nkandlagate”, “compound”, and “Homestead” when referring to President Jacob Zuma’s lavish thatch palace.