watch Al Jazeera live online
If you want to see what’s really going on in the Middle East, you want to watch Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, the vast majority of cable companies in the U.S. do not carry the channel…
journalmalism
watch it: “Edward R Murrow: TV is being used to deceive us – 1958”
It’s well worth reminding ourselves that what Murrow warned us about more than half a century ago — that “our mass media… television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us” — is still our reality today.
wtf: Keith Olbermann off the air?!
Is it time to be scared yet?
question of the day: Will heated political rhetoric cool down in the wake of the Tucson shootings?
We have turned what should be serious discourse about the state of the nation and our culture into a sort of circus sideshow more concerned with entertaining audiences than with addressing the many problems we face. Can this ever change?
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…
reality TV hates women; pirates love ‘Lost’ and ‘Heroes’; Kevin Smith announces career makeover; more: leftover links
Plus: How did ‘Little Fockers’ get focked up?; is ‘True Grit’ a remake or not?; Jon Stewart, the Modern Day Edward R. Murrow; more…
question of the day: Is what Wikileaks does journalism?
Sorry if it seems I’m obsessed with Julian Assange and Wikileaks, but I do think this may well be the most important issue of the moment, because what happens as a result of it will impact how our society will discuss everything else: either entirely freely, or fettered by corporate and governmental constraints…
Roger Ebert’s new show needs a second host; studio hopes Netflix is fading; does the U.K. need a Fox news?; more: leftover links
Plus, tons more on Wikileaks, including Julian Assange’s manifesto…
you’re not helping: AV Club writer fabricates a review, and too many people defend him
Leonard Pierce, a writer at the AV Club, ”reviewed” a book that isn’t even finished yet, and he’s got a whole helluva lotta people dissmissing his actions as no big deal…
Will Smith as Robin Hood?; a Wolverine with depth?; ‘Narnia’ upsets Jesus-y types; more: leftover links
Plus: a whole ton of stuff about Wikileaks and Julian Assange…
