Obscure Box

Digital journalism needs power and a means of communication which is why almost 48 hours after the event I am finally able to say I was in The Gap when the worst storm in years hit our house. We were too busy bucketing water away from the rear of our home, as even more water [...]

Reports that Twentieth Century Fox has forced Baz Luhrmann to change the ending of his highly-anticipated movie Australia are greatly exagerated, according to the man himself. “You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so,” he says in “Baz Luhrmann rushes to finish film Australia” at News.com.au [...]

Why bother going to see the much hyped Australia now we all know it has a happy ending? It’s all over the media how movie-maker Baz Luhrmann’s bowed to studio pressure to get rid of the sad ending where Hugh Jackman’s character dies. The UK’s The Guardian is in on the story with “Kidman’s outback [...]

Barack Obama is not the first black president of the United States, as has been widely misreported by the world’s media. The president has been black before. Many times in fact. Perhaps the most recent appointment was actor Dennis Haysbert who played the black President David Palmer in the long-running television series 24. “If anything, [...]

It seems like the whole world is celebrating the victory of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Reports are talking about how great it is that the US will have its first black president. Obama himself made note of the historic occasion in his speech before an audience of millions of [...]