It was divine… The garden setting, the lavish spread (a potluck never looked so good!), the pretty dresses, the sparkling eyes of dear friends, the bounty of freshly-snipped garden flowers decorating tables and headpieces, the personalized party favors (antique tea spoons that Sara has been gathering), and the warm afternoon sun providing the perfect setting for girl talk and laughter and celebrating. So for now, I’ll leave you with a couple more beautiful photos (all taken by the lovely and talented Joanna) from a High Tea birthday party given in honor of my friend Sara earlier this week. Most likely we’ll be sipping tea, eating chocolate, and lighting up like school girls as we watch all the pageantry unfold in a land far, far away… imaginations running wild with thoughts of princes and princesses, castles and coaches. Who would have thought it, eh? But is it really news? Media owners have been pulling the wool over the eyes of advertisers and consumers as long as Brits have been having tea.As this posts I’ll be preparing to pile into our living room with several girlfriends where we will “oooo” and “ahhh” over Kate Middleton’s dress, the flowers, the choir, the kiss… and all other things royal and weddingish. Associated even hired an ex-Scotland Yard detective to expose the scam and ran advertising about it. It appears they have been falsifying the number of copies being read by skulking off to rubbish sites and dumping thousands of unread papers under the cover of darkness.
Prim and proper free#
Two big newspaper groups - News International and Associated - are having a public spat over their free London newspapers, The London Paper and London Lite.
Prim and proper tv#
It isn't just TV stations, and it isn't just grannies. Still, ripping off grannies is not really on. Maybe making it direct from consumers as opposed to relying on marketers is the next step in a bigger trend that began with subscription services and will end with little concern for providing advertisers a viable commercial platform. And everybody has been stung, from little kids to pensioners.Īs TV companies feel the squeeze on revenue from the blooming internet, the squeeze on audiences from other forms of content and the squeeze on operations from demanding shareholders, it is little wonder they are trying to find alternative means of making money. The latest villain is GMTV, but everybody from "Big Brother" to "Blue Peter" has been caught with their phones hanging out. The sting is that they are held too long, the competitions have already finished or there was never a competition in the first place. The first is the scandal of unscrupulous media owners making a fast buck from unsuspecting viewers phoning in to competitions on premium-rate phone lines. Two examples have rather sullied the image of our profession lately as they have been dragged across front pages and web pages. Leaving tea cakes aside, the notion that we are fine, upstanding people here in the London media scene is under special scrutiny.
Ivan Pollard is a partner at Naked Communications, London, a communications-strategy shop with offices in six countries.
Prim and proper code#
We do not all talk like Hugh Grant we do not all stop for a spot of afternoon tea we did not all go to private schools and we do not all stick to a code of fair play. Some of them are probably true, but some of them need to be challenged.
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