war is good for business
The revolution will, in fact, not only be televised, it’ll be packaged for advertisers and marketers. Try the new Baharat Flavored Doritos!
CNN
rest easy, everyone…
…Kirk Cameron assures us on CNN that dead birds falling out of the sky does not mean the end of the world is nigh…
question of the day: What is your favorite geeky holiday movie or TV special?
Following up on yesterday’s question — Why are there no Christmas movies this year? — let’s talk about the great holiday films of the past… and specifically, the great holiday movies with geek appeal. Bonus points if your suggestion is on DVD so we can all give it a watch this holiday season.
Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
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…
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.
deep thought (re Tyler Clementi and Anderson Cooper)
Imagine the power of Anderson Cooper opening his nightly CNN newscast like this: ‘I’m proud to say that I am a gay man, and so I have a personal appreciation of the hell that Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi went through before he committed suicide.’
wtf: mainstream journalism is even more of a mess than we thought
I knew things were bad with the state of journalism — or as I like to call it, journalmalism — but this is almost a perfect storm of WTF-ness in this arena. Because remember James O’Keefe? He’s back…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Alien Time Machine: Encounters From Another Dimension’
It’s both TRUE STORY *and* THE MOST AMAZING THING YOU WILL EVER WITNESS!
deep thought (re the journalmalism of cable news)
How does a 24-hour news channel “run out of time” to cover a story?
