Tag: media

Carrie Gracie: A Hero Vilified

Posted on 2nd February 20182nd February 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

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The Emoji React, The Post-Modern and Journalism

Posted on 27th January 201827th January 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

You are engaging in conversation against a backdrop of a constantly shifting societal landscape. Epithetical headlines zoom before your eyes; you grimace, smile, weep, frown in frustration or laugh at the day’s cherry-picked events. You […]

Stephen Paddock is a terrorist- so why are we hesitating?

Posted on 9th October 201719th October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

On the night of October 1st, Las Vegas witnessed the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, as 64-year- old Stephen Paddock from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas, resulting […]

News Round Up

Posted on 22nd September 20171st October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The Gryphon Wins Best Media Society at NSA 2017 The Gryphon was voted the ‘Best Media Society’ at this year’s National Societies Awards. The ceremony, which took place in the Crowne Plaza in Nottingham, saw The Gryphon receive […]

If you want to win the youth vote, you’ve got to speak their language

Posted on 19th June 201720th June 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

“Children are to be seen and not heard”, so goes the idiom. And so goes the Tory party’s strategy towards young voters as well, according to their 2017 election campaign. If the Tories want to […]

The ‘Micky Mouse’ degree: media degrees deserve more credit

Posted on 12th June 201712th June 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Amidst the plethora of essays that I’m currently working on (supposed to working on, anyway), it is difficult to take out time to pen down something. Yes, let us go back to the time when […]

Manchester Arena attack: a dark day for journalism

Posted on 23rd May 201730th May 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

‘Terror carnage’, ‘massacre’ – some of the headlines splashed across Britain’s front pages today after an explosion last night killed at least 22 people at Manchester Arena. Several newspapers featured the photograph of an injured […]

You Are What You Read

Posted on 26th November 201628th November 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Rabaeeh Moeen looks at the US election and questions the media’s role in it. How much of an influence does it have? And more importantly, is it a decisive one? The media plays a role […]

A Branson pickle! Students complain of “appalling” Virgin Media broadband in Hyde Park

Posted on 4th November 20164th November 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Tell my wi-fi miss her… The Gryphon has received a number of complaints from students living in the Hyde Park area about poor Virgin Media broadband service, a problem which seems to have been recurring […]

Transforming the Media…

Posted on 12th February 201631st August 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The Gryphon explores transgender representation in the media and the work that still needs to be done. Before the sixties, few, if any, films had been made about transgender people. However, with the recent release […]

12 Days of Christmas Cheer

Posted on 17th December 201531st August 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Short days and long nights and an incessant battle against wind and rain. In addition to our own personal ‘winter slump’, terrible and pessimistic news has been reverberating around the world in the last few […]

Islamophobia: what can you do about it?

Posted on 15th December 201531st August 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor

A phrase that is still underlined with red dots when you type it in on Word, Islamophobia is still very much in its beginner phase of becoming a well-known and understood phenomenon. Following reports of […]