what he said: Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg…
…in a press release about Wikileaks and Julian Assange, rejecting the mantra “Pentagon Papers good; WikiLeaks material bad”…
journalmalism
Fox News has no sense of humor; where the heck is the original ‘Tron’?; entire ‘Walking Dead’ writing staff fired; more: leftover links
Plus: political activism lands Mark Ruffalo on terror watchlist; jail time for modifying Xbox 360s; BP will make a movie about Gulf oil spill; more…
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…
NBC is sooo regretting letting Conan go; new Wolverine movie is called ‘The Wolverine’; BBC continues to employ David Tennant and John Simm; more: leftover links
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
question of the day: What is the point of ‘People’s Sexiest Man Alive designation?
Nothing against Ryan Reynolds, but can any one man be the Sexiest Man Alive? And if this can be, wouldn’t the editors of People have to at least meet all three billion or so men on the planet before coming to a conclusion that genuinely reflects all men alive?
watch it: Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart have a civilized discussion about journalism
If TV can look like this as a rarity, surely it can look like this more often.
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…
uncool: News Anchor Barbie
I’m not sure which is worse: that News Anchor Barbie looks like something out of a Victoria’s Secret catalogue, or that girls around the world actually aspire to sit in front of a camera and smile as they announce the latest body count.
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
