what he said: journalist and new-media researcher Jeremy Littau…
…on the Chilean mine disaster coverage, and how it’s representative of the insanity driving corporate media these days…
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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the politics that scrapped a ‘Doctor Who’ story in the 1970s
A BBC Radio 4 program last year — and just rebroadcast last week — goes into some detail about why the Doctor Who story “Shada” was never broadcast, and more…
trailer break: ‘Carlos’
With a long miniseries version debuting on TV and a shorter cut opening in theaters, Olivier Assayas’s epic about the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal should be an interesting test in new movie-release paradigms.
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Retribution”
Lacy and the STO’s attempt to bomb the Caprica City spaceport is an interesting counterpoint to Clarice’s virtual bombing of the C-Bucs’ stadium. Maybe Clarice is a better leader for a terrorist group that actually wants to achieve its crazy goals.
question of the day: Did you watch any of the Chilean mine rescue, and did you find it riveting?
Now that all the trapped Chilean miners and the rescuers who went down to help with their return to the surface have made it out alive and well, the general consensus seems to be that the rescue, televised around the world virtually nonstop for 24 hours, was riveting TV.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor is now immortal, so there
Thirteen regenerations, and that’s it? So old Who, now that the prospect of a 13th Doctor doesn’t seem so far away…
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Blowing Smoke”
There’s a time for beans, and there’s a time for ketchup. And there’s a time to wonder just why the hell the Indian lady on the Land o’ Lakes butter box is caught in an infinite recursion…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: shooting in the U.S. next month
We’ve been hearing rumors about Doctor Who shooting in America for more than two years, but now it’s official. Utah, ho!
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Unvanquished”
Has everyone gone totally round the bend? Joseph Adama has thrown himself in with the gangsters in full, it seems. Daniel Graystone is about to go to work for them. (Has he never seen whatever the Colonial version of GoodFellas is? ‘Every since I was a kid I wanted to be a Tauron gangster…’)
question of the day: Is Banksy’s ‘Simpsons’ couch gag a load of pretend outrage, or is it eye-opening commentary?
Enigmatic British street artist Banksy struck again last night: on U.S. television. He supplied the ‘couch gag’ bit during the opening credits of a new episode of The Simpsons entitled ‘MoneyBart,’ and it’s a doozy…
