{"id":111037,"date":"2017-12-15T17:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=111037"},"modified":"2017-12-15T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:37:53","slug":"five-things-you-shouldnt-have-missed-15-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/five-things-you-shouldnt-have-missed-15-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things You Shouldn\u2019t Have Missed \u2013 15 December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from media, PR and comms including the mother of all acquisitions, UCL\u2019s white campus and the words, and terms, of 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Disney to buy 21st Century Fox\u2019s entertainment assets
\n<\/strong><\/span>Disney has announced<\/a> that it is to acquire 20th<\/sup> Century Fox and other entertainment and sports assets from the Murdoch empire. The $52.4 billion all-stock deal will include the broadcaster Sky if Fox is successful in its takeover. Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger has extended his contract for another two years, to 2021, in order to oversee the \u2018integration of assets\u2019. It is also reported that Disney expects to realise $2 billion in cost savings from overlapping business functions.<\/p>\n

The huge merger has raised questions over competition in the market, the future of the Murdoch empire and, perhaps most significantly, how long it will be for X-Men to feature in the Avengers movies.<\/p>\n

2. Max Clifford<\/span>
\n<\/strong> Disgraced publicist Max Clifford died this week in prison. A man who was famous for creating false stories and representing kiss-and-tell \u2018celebrities\u2019, Clifford\u2019s career came to an abrupt end in 2014 when he was convicted of a string of abuses against women and girls. The PR industry has been keen to further distance itself from the man who has been described<\/a> as someone who \u2018did a disservice to the honest public relations industry but had no lasting influence on it\u2019.<\/p>\n

3. UCL\u2019s white campus
\n<\/strong><\/span> In tweet blunder of the week (no, regular Five Things readers, it\u2019s not The Donald), University College London tweeted<\/a>: \u2018Dreaming of a white campus?\u2019. While they were, of course, referencing the snow in London, on Twitter offence is like wildfire; quickly out of control. It led to the UCL apology<\/a>, where they admitted to choosing their words \u2018very poorly\u2019. Unfortunately, this caused more outraged from those that believe Twitter \u2018snowflakes\u2019 (yes, very funny etc) shouldn\u2019t be so easily offended.<\/p>\n

4. Google in 2017<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The most Googled terms of 2017 have been revealed by the search engine, with Meghan Markle dominating the UK\u2019s searching habits this year. The full list<\/a> includes a mixture of news and technological events, reflecting the year that was. Google also released most searched questions, for example \u2018How to buy Bitcoin\u2019, as well as global data where the French election was dominant but Trump didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n

5. Youthquake<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Oxford English Dictionary has announced<\/a> its word of the year, which for 2017 is \u2018Youthquake\u2019. The word refers to the rallying of young people by Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s Labour Party during the 2017 General Election, and saw a 400% increase in usage from 2016. That said, if a word is used once in 2016, it only needs to be used five times in 2017 to achieve a 400% rise. Other words which made the list include \u2018antifa\u2019 (groups united by militant opposition to fascism) and \u2018broflake\u2019 (a man upset by progressive attitudes which conflict with his more conservative views). The word of the year traditionally ‘defines’ the year and has previously included \u2018chav\u2019 in 2004, \u2018credit crunch\u2019 in 2008 and \u2018vape\u2019 in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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