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It’s the bastion of the religious establishment: Thought for the Day on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. The problem is that atheists and humanists are barred from making presentations on the two and a half minute slot, but that didn’t stop Rosemary Lain-Priestley criticising the atheist bus campaign on today’s Thought for the Day. Click here to get to the recording of the progamme - 1:50:50 in. If you think we should be able to state our case then you can contact the Today Programme here.
Tags: ABC, BBC, Censorship, Radio, Radio 4, Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Thought For The Day, Today Programme
23.10.08
Here is a quick summary of all of the press coverage the campaign has received so far. If you know of more then please post the links in the comments, or contact us. We can speak English, French, German, Italian and Swedish at atheistcampaign.org but we can’t manage all languages!
| Country |
Publication |
Link |
| UK |
The Guardian |
Link |
| UK |
The Telegraph |
Link |
| UK |
BBC News |
Link |
| UK |
The Times |
Link |
| UK |
Daily Mail |
Link |
| UK |
The Sun |
Link |
| UK |
ITV Local |
Link |
| UK |
The Daily Mash (satire) |
Link |
| Canada |
CBC |
Link |
| USA |
Washington Post |
Link |
| USA / Int. |
IHT |
Link |
| Brazil |
Folha de São Paulo |
Link |
| Brazil |
O Globo |
Link |
| Italy |
Quotidiano Nazionale |
Link |
| Poland |
Dziennik |
Link |
| Australia |
The Age |
Link 1 | Link 2 |
| New Zealand |
Stuff.co.nz |
Link |
| France |
Yahoo.fr |
Link |
| International |
AP |
Link |
| Netherlands |
Nederlands Dagblad |
Link |
| Turkey |
Hürriyet |
Link |
| Denmark |
Ekstra Bladet |
Link |
| Slovakia |
SME |
Link |
| Germany |
IDEA |
Link |
| Norway |
Klikk |
Link |
| Hong Kong |
The Standard |
Link |
| Finland |
Iltalehti |
Link |
| Russia |
Sostav |
Link |
For further news stories
| Country |
Publication |
Link |
| UK |
The Register |
Link |
| UK |
MarketingWeek |
Link |
| UK |
UK Talk Marketing |
Link |
| International |
The Earth Times |
Link |
| UK |
NewsLite |
Link |
| UK |
Christian Today |
Link |
| UK |
Christian Today |
Link |
| UK |
Politics.co.uk |
Link 1 | Link 2 |
| International |
ShortNews |
Link |
| International |
UPI |
Link |
| US |
GetReligion.org |
Link |
| Australia |
Streem |
Link |
| UK |
Ekklesia |
Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 |
|
| UK |
Anorak |
Link |
| UK |
Theos |
Link |
| UK |
Brand Republic |
Link |
| UK |
Eursoc |
Link |
| UK |
Londonist |
Link |
| UK |
The First Post |
Link |
| Canada |
Digital Journal |
Link |
| France |
Zigonet |
Link |
| Turkey |
Radikal |
Link |
| Turkey |
Haber7 |
Link |
| Poland |
Goniec Polski |
Link |
| Netherlands |
News4all |
Link |
| Spain |
Discapnet |
Link |
| UK / Turkey |
BBC Turkish |
Link |
| Norway |
Vårt Land |
Link |
| USA |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Link |
| USA |
Comcast |
Link |
Tags: Coverage, Global, International, Media, News, Newspapers, Press, Television, TV
22.10.08
We need to make some higher resolution Photoshop mockups of buses with the ads displayed on them as the images on our press page are not so wonderful at the moment. So can you help us? Here’s how!
(1) Get hold of a decent digital camera, ideally a digital SLR.
(2) Go out on the street and take pictures of some buses*, ideally red bendy buses but others are also fine.
(3) E-mail these pictures to us at photos {at} atheistcampaign(.)org and, if you wish, upload them to Peter Theakston’s Flickr group.
If you’re feeling even keener, then make a mockup of the bus with the banner…
(1) Download this image of the ad banner that will appear on the buses, and use Photoshop or an equivalent (GIMP is free and will do the job) to mockup the bus, putting the ad on the side. You should ideally also blank out the logos of the bus company on the bus.
(2) E-mail the mockup as a JPG or PSD file to photos {at} atheistcampaign(.)org
Please only use our banner in your mockups – this is the design and slogan that was used for the donation page and it cannot be changed now. We’ll credit you if you provide us with good pictures, but as we’re all volunteers in this we can’t pay you for your work.
* – if people think you’re a bus-spotter when you’re taking your photos be ready to tell them you’re doing the work for an atheist campaign!
[UPDATE]
The first new mockup submitted is now shown above, thanks the excellent work of R. Longmuir. Click here to view the high resolution version.
Tags: Advert, Bus, Images, Mockups, Photos, Photoshop, Pictures, Slogan
22.10.08
Thanks for all the suggestions about merchandise! It’s been a bit tricky to get this to work immediately, and we should be able to open an online shop here with T-Shirts and bumper stickers to purchase from sometime later this week.
I’ll make sure that anyone that has posted a comment or has e-mailed us about merchandise will be informed when the shop goes live.
There will be a small markup on the cost of each item which will be added to the funds to put ads on more buses.
Tags: Badges, Blue Apple Music, Christmas Presents, Merchandise, Probably No God, Slogan, T-shirts
22.10.08
It’s been a long day, you’ve worked hard and maybe had a beer or two somewhere and then you’re about to get a nightbus home in London. Welcome rest awaits soon, but you’re content looking back at the day.
That’s more or less how I’m feeling as the webmanager of atheistcampaign.org after this manic and brilliant first day of the campaign to get atheist ads on the buses. As I write more than £43000 has been donated, almost 8x the target, and that does not even include any match funding from Richard Dawkins. This website has received more than 15000 individual visitors today, even prompting the hosting firm to contact me to ask me what was going on with such a spike in traffic.
The campaign has been covered all over the place – BBC, ITN, Telegraph, Times – and more will surely await tomorrow. We’re also very thankful for all the messages we’ve received, and the bloggers that have written about the campaign – we’ll link to you just as soon as we get a moment.
Ariane and I are voluntarily giving up our time to run this website and campaign, so today marks the culmination of weeks of hard slog to pull everything together doing this alongside our regular work. It’s been very, very worthwhile, and I’m super grateful to everyone that has donated so far. I’ll log off for now and be back at it afresh tomorrow morning.
Tags: BBC, Donations, Hits, ITN, Journalism, Justgiving, Press, Telegraph, Times, Visitors, Website
21.10.08
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