Do women in TV get a raw deal?
Would BBC1 controller Jay Hunt have come in for so much criticism over the Brightspark affair if she had been a man? By Samantha BrickLook behind the camera and much of the UK's TV output is decided...
View ArticleThe reaction to Viva Brother's break-up proves we love being part of a mob
Viva Brother's split and Samantha Brick's Daily Mail article provoked torrents of abuse. Why? Can't we separate a person's worth from the quality of their workIt's a commonplace in consideration of...
View ArticleLike Samantha Brick, I have been hated for my good looks
Tim Dowling read Samantha Brick's article in the Daily Mail about women resenting her beauty and knew just how she felt. Here, he tells how men hate him for being too handsomeLast week I was waiting at...
View ArticleThe Mail simply threw Samantha Brick to the wolves | Hadley Freeman
Clearly Brick's piece was absurd – but what's disgusting is the Mail's history of using and abusing female writers in this wayHow much does the Daily Mail hate women? It obviously hates female...
View ArticleMedia Talk Podcast: James Murdoch resigns as BSkyB chairman, Leveson inquiry
The News Corp heir apparent steps down, Neil Wallis gives evidence, and Samantha Brick makes Twitter implodeThis week Dan Sabbagh takes a closer look at the resignation of James Murdoch from BSkyB. Dan...
View ArticleSamantha Brick goes transatlantic with awkward Today show interview
High-profile British media spectacles this week have made American women realise they're not all like Kate MiddletonThe special relationship between America and Britain has come under unprecedented...
View ArticleThe trouble with Samantha Brick | Deborah Orr
I'd never heard of Samantha Brick a week ago. Frankly, I wish I still hadn'tAt the beginning of this week, I was one of millions who had never heard the name Samantha Brick. At its end, I'm one of...
View ArticleSamantha Brick – Do women hate beautiful women? Or do they just hate being...
Samantha Brick has been pilloried for saying other women hate her because of her looks. Here Eva Wiseman and Susie Orbach debate what the story says about women and the mediaHi Susie!Do women hate each...
View ArticleMedia Monkey: Sands slow to start at Standard, and what has Samantha Brick...
✒ Sarah Sands's delayed start to her editorship of the London Evening Standard (she begins later this month, though was appointed at the end of March) has caused no end of speculation at the paper's...
View ArticleThe Vintage Years: makeup or no makeup?
One discussion that got the Invisible Woman's brain twitching after that Samantha Brick article was – should women go bare-faced or not?So then, Samantha Brick… (and why not, everyone else has written...
View ArticleSamantha Brick: going hell for Leather | Media Monkey
There's no escape from Daily Mail freelance Samantha Brick, it seems. Last week she managed to shimmy her way onto ITV's This Morning, NBC's Today, Barbara Walters's ABC show The View and a breakfast...
View ArticleFootball transfer rumours: Fulham's Andrew 'Andy' Johnson to West Brom
Today's rumours are looking better than Samantha BrickNormally as jaunty as a feathered fedora tilted at just the right angle, The Mill is on edge. Last night, home alone and reading Heidi, there was...
View ArticleNow Samantha Brick is to appear on Celebrity Big Brother
You'd better make your menfolk look away from the Mail's irresistible sirenJust when you think there is nothing more that the mavens of reality TV can do to raise our interest, they unveiled a new...
View ArticleCelebrity Big Brother 2012: the reality show we'll love to hate?
Samantha Brick, Julie Goodyear, Gary Kemp and Julian Clary among names appearing in Channel 5 showCelebrity Big Brother 2012: the full lineup of housematesCelebrity Big Brother left Channel 4 with a...
View ArticleSamantha Brick to take part in Celebrity Big Brother
Journalist joined by Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear, Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and comedian Julian ClaryCelebrity Big Brother 2012: the full lineup of housematesThe journalist Samantha Brick,...
View ArticleSamantha Brick: 'We are all taught false modesty'
Samantha Brick, who wrote that other women hated her for being pretty, says she never expected the insults – and celebrity – that followedIn April the world's media descended on the tiny village of...
View ArticleWho do you think were the faces of 2012?
Mo Farah, EL James, Sam Mendes … the Observer is looking at 2012 through the eyes of the people who made the year's biggest headlines. Who stood out for you in 2012?• Interactive: People who made the...
View ArticleWhy Samantha Brick's 'I'm too pretty' franchise is looking good
Women claiming to be 'too attractive' is now so commonplace it's become a genre all of its own. Welcome to the First Person Pretty…Women's history can be separated into pre- and post-Samantha Brick....
View ArticleNothing brings out tiny violins like pretty people moaning. But might they...
Being beautiful mainly seems a blessing. But it can be a curse – and the main problem is that you are just not allowed to complain about itIt’s tough being beautiful. Other women, women who are not so...
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