In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Karla Homolka. Thanks to Canadian media, that name has become an icon that the public is supposed to be afraid of. The public is taught to fear certain things such as serial killers like Paul Bernardo and Homolka, What people might not realize is that the sort of crimes we are supposed to fear happen infrequently. In fact, a lot more people die every year by white collar crime and unsafe working conditions, yet this never gets reported because it is not seen by the media as an exciting story.
Newspapers reporting on crime have shifted their focus to more serious and violent crimes according to research conducted by Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen. Alongside this, they argue that news and editorial values tend to represent crime as ever-present and common; an everyday threat rather than a one-off disturbance, as they more commonly did in the past.
On July 4 when Karla Homolka was set free, Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language network, gave her a voice within hours, granting her a broadcasted interview. The media has written countless articles debating where she might settle, encouraging people to voice their concerns and murder threats if the killer moves into their neighbourhood. Does the public really have anything to fear from serial killers? The answer is a big fat no. Yet because of the over exposure serial killers get in the media, the public believes that they are in constant danger of being murdered.
According to the UN, more than 2 million people have died in job-related accidents and illnesses and the toll rising because of rapid industrialization in some developing countries. This is not the stuff that front page articles are made of apparently.
Another type of crime that goes underreported is white collar crime. When people think of white collar crime they think non-violent, economic crime, but they are misled. A lot of white collar crime is in fact violent, injures people, makes people sick, and can kill people at work. This sort of crime is conceptualized as an ?accident? when there are actually conscience actions at work. For example, the story of the miners in China that died in a coal mine last July didn?t get much coverage even though 83 people were killed. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo get the big headlines when they only killed three people.
Who is the offender in white collar crime? And there lies the problem. There is a lot of ambiguity when trying to point fingers at who is responsible for this sort of crime
whereas in street crime, there is a clear, direct link between the bad guy and the victim. For reporters this is great news because the story is simple, easy to understand and it fits news format.
A recent article by the Canadian Press reported that Homolka is seeking a ?wide ranging injunction aimed at preventing media from reporting anything about her?. In my opinion, this seems like a very good idea. Why? Because the media only reports on crime that they can sensationalize, that is easy to explain, and that can perpetuate more readership for their newspaper, magazine or broadcast. They do not report on issues that can have a real impact on the readers. Those who were responsible for the gas explosion that killed the dozens of minors were never put on the front page or on any page for that matter, instead the media reported a ?violation of production procedures and poor management” to explain the explosion. Not one name. Just ?poor management?. So they get off with murder and the public never realizes where the real dangers can come from.
There is a notable absence of stories that deal with state violence and corporate violence. This leads to saturation storytelling- primary crime news stories overshadow other stories. Even during the period of the Vietnam War and Watergate, newspapers still covered mostly street crime.
The ultimate goal of the media is profit. They want to put out a product that will appeal to the largest amount of people; stories on street crime such as serial killers attract readers. Ultimately, they ignore the dangerous behaviour of powerful groups and leave the public vulnerable to the real dangers out there.
