Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 15/09/2026@rebeccakcooney.bsky.social tries to solve the mystery of whether Tom Jones has decided to leave The Voice, or if he was actually let go, on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen and watch now: 📺 youtu.be/80BH70erXck 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast 022
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 14/09/2026🚨NEW MEDIA CLUB OUT NOW🚨 @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social talks us through the scale of the Channel 4 job cuts and explains why it's a big hit for the company/ industry on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen now: 📺 youtu.be/80BH70erXck 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast 032
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 17/04/2026Would the BBC need to cut 2,000 jobs if everyone paid their license fee? Simon Draper (TV director) and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social (Broadcast Magazine) on The Media Club with @scottygb.bsky.social, filling in for @mattdeegan.com. 📺 youtu.be/sNljXavvtfs 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub 096
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Right wing media: DEFUND THE BBC. Right wing media: why can’t the BBC now afford to show the thing I like? 418125
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████ 6860431723
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference. 1042424537339
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/01/2026actually it's called Reform because they're trying to re-form the Conservative party but in the tent next door 22533103
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/01/2026Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward 692355608
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 09/01/2026🚨NEW MEDIA CLUB OUT NOW🚨 Can creators make more £££ from Spotify than YouTube? @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social (Broadcast) & @thomasadamcurry.com (BBC Studios) discuss on the new Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. 📺 youtu.be/EpuQA9EwS04?si=6Gb20_cum3h… 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub 013
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 24/12/2025My husband just turned to my bearded uncle at the dinner table and said "I will fight you, Santa!". Christmas eve is going well. 000
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use 1602737837
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I'm the leaseholder of a ground floor flat in a 5-floor block. My situation is pretty different from (I'm fairly sure) all of those who died in the Grenfell tragedy. That said, can you imagine anyone living in a block of flats in London would even consider following this advice? Sod you Clarion. 000
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Well I was today years old when I discovered Pepto Bismol tastes like Deep Heat milkshake... 010
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 31/10/2025Disney Plus will be stopping funding for Doctor Who! Insight Editor at Broadcast @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social runs us through what's happened on the Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen and watch now: 📺 youtu.be/fCNF89efyLM 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast 012
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Close Labour, close, but could we perhaps stop pandering to the right by pretending/implying that Indefinite Leave to Remain is anywhere close to being automatic? (it costs thousands in visa fees to get anywhere near ILR for a start) 010
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Nice water feature outside South Norwood Station @thameswater.bsky.social... 030
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Almost every place you go on holiday - no matter how full of artisan boutiques - will have one or more shops selling these lovingly crafted wooden knob bottle openers. But back home, I've never had someone hand me one of those to open a drink with. Own up: who is it that's buying these?? 020
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.” 8825288417662
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/09/2025This is the thing: the political exploitation of migration is entirely cynical and not related to reality. Both Immigration and net migration fell from 2023 to 2024 - net drastically from 860,000 to 431,000. Did you notice people calming down about it or saying it now felt under control? 818181
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Oh bollocks. She absolutely doesn't deserve this. 020
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Oh bollocks. She absolutely doesn't deserve this. 000
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyRichard Winskill 🏳️🌈 @richardwinskill.uk · 03/09/2025Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the blanket assertion that "words will never hurt you" rather overlooks the fact that the guy saying, "Break their bones with sticks and stones," was probably a major contributing factor to the current state of your bones... 11147
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025CHEESES (Palindrome) Decide "No edam," I did. I ate feta, I did. I made one diced. 2368
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyThe Media Club @themediaclub.com · 23/08/2025The Bitchiest Edinburgh TV Festival Ever ☠️ @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social on the new Media Club with @mattdeegan.com ft. @heatherfallon.bsky.social & @farazosman.bsky.social. Listen and watch now... 📺 youtu.be/stME7LtL2K4 🔈 podfollow.com/themediaclub 033
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Bit of congestion on the way to my desk this morning... 041
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/08/2025So my awesome writing group is putting together an anthology of our work, and to promote it, we've launched a newsletter. Fancy getting fantastical short stories, poetry and writing advice (plus gorgeous illustrations) in your inbox? Sign up here open.substack.com/pub/fantasti...open.substack.comFantastic | Fantastic Writers Collective | SubstackThe newsletter of the Fantastic Writers Collective. Click to read Fantastic, by Fantastic Writers Collective, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago. 021
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects. They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comFamily of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspectsExclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’ 28975340
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 30/07/2025Proud of y’all for the 50+ puns in the quote tweets - big shout to Masturchef - but a pal just texted me LonelyFans so I’m afraid we have a winner 515117
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 19/07/2025Christopher Reeve advertising camcorders in 1989, culminating in THE GREATEST SLOGAN OF ALL TIME 936780
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I don't think "exonerated" means what Gregg Wallace thinks it means... 010
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Review of the new Superman film: This is a film that dares to ask the big questions. What if Palestine was in Ukraine? What if Superman could be defeated by randomly shouting out bra sizes? What if selfies could save the world? 110
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyMatt Deegan @mattdeegan.com · 20/06/2025On the podcast this week... Kate Phillips gets the BBC Chief Content Officer role, self service ads are coming to TV, Netflix streams TF1 and Maisie McCabe joins us from Cannes (whilst me, @farazosman.bsky.social and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social are stuck in the studio). 022
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Abolish the Home Office.theguardian.comUK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil aloneWhile Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil 21416115
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyPhoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025TOON TUESDAY #ToonTuesday 210512
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"Old fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a very warped sense of what the average voter thinks, reads and cares about."newstatesman.comThe public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion. 32569182
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really? 662653781
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyaidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025All those Brexiters are gonna be super mad at this foreign unelected Govt interfering in our sovereign laws. Looking forward to the outraged blogs on Mail+ and Telegraph any second. 57621
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social · 17/04/2025For the avoidance of doubt, trans women are women, trans men are men, NBs exist & y'day's ruling makes all women a bit less free to dress & present as they want. And it does nothing to tackle the behaviour of cis men or patriarchy(you know, the reason mixed sex spaces might feel unsafe in 1st place) 011
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025In years to come we'll look at this era and wonder why in light of a global pandemic, economic inflation, growing inequality and technological upheaval we decided to make the private lives of a minority considerably worse. 441465275
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/04/2025you see, the fact he's still talking is how you know there's no deep state 41209
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyMatt Deegan @mattdeegan.com · 28/03/2025Great to have @janemartinson.bsky.social and @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social on the show this week. 041
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I want everyone who said they couldn't vote for Harris, because her policies didn't go far enough in one or several areas, and concluded "they're all the same", to make themselves a little scrapbook over the next four years. As an aide-mémoire for next time. 1602585801
Reposted by Rebecca CooneyKarin Robinson @karinjr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Come to hear me and the excellent @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social talk with the delightful @mattdeegan.com about media… stuff. Stay to hear Rebecca and I both process our grief after reading That Vulture Article… 051