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Say goodbye to TV’s golden age: Why Comcast’s rise and net neutrality’s downfall will change everything – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 30, 2014What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 21, 2014The oculus could change entertainment as we know it
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 18, 2014FW: Elephant Painting An Elephant
Zuda...The 4-yr old painting elephant. thanks to George MilmanPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Study: America’s culture economy is doomed – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 11, 2013Miley Cyrus: Dealing with the ‘sexualization of childhood’ – Canada – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, October 8, 2013Rumsfeld unreflective about his role, filmmaker says – Feature: Toronto International Film Festival – Interactive – CBC.ca
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, September 14, 2013ABANDONED STATIONS | More Intelligent Life
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, September 5, 2013In ‘Wild Tales,’ Graham Nash opens up about sex, drugs and music behind Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – NY Daily News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, September 1, 2013George Clooney To Hedge Fund Honcho Daniel Loeb: Stop Spreading Fear At Sony – Yahoo! Movies Canada
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, August 3, 2013Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival a spectacle of rhythms, costumes – Toronto – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, August 3, 2013Matt Taibbi Explains the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Cover | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, July 21, 2013Were Paleolithic Cave Painters High on Psychedelic Drugs? Scientists Propose Ingenious Theory for Why They Might Have Been
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 15, 2013Were Paleolithic Cave Painters High on Psychedelic Drugs? Scientists Propose Ingenious Theory for Why They Might Have Been
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, July 14, 2013Party hats top surveillance cameras for George Orwell’s birthday – Your Community
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, June 29, 2013France opens new front in war with Internet giants – FRANCE 24
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, June 4, 2013Pricey tickets for Rolling Stones tour test limits of live-concert market – CSMonitor.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, June 3, 2013Jane Mayer: How Far Did PBS Go to Avoid Offending a Sponsor? : The New Yorker
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, May 27, 2013Alexa O’Brien: A review of Alex Gibney’s ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’
O'Brien ..The public needs an accurate accounting of the "facts" concerning the Manning's prosecution and the criminal probe into Julian Assange and WikiLeaks-- certainly more than we need Hollywood scripts by documentarians, like Gibney, or the former editors of major newspapers, like the Guardian and the New York Times, who haven't bothered to show up to the legal proceedings, which are underway for more than a year and a half-- proceedings, I might add, which are now the subject of their creative fancy and economic enterprise. If "We Steal Secrets" or the subsequent Q & A with director, Alex Gibney, revealed anything, it's that the filmmaker is quite uninformed about the trial of Bradley Manning. He can barely speak on the topic or on that of the largest criminal probe of a publisher and its source in history. Which begs the question: What was Gibney relying on for his costly 'string of pearls' reportage, beyond his hackneyed entourage of unexamined glory-boats, bearing witness on the silver screen to their privileged punditry-- that is, talking about themselves amongst themselves for their own benefit-- certainly not the public's-- or future generations?.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, May 26, 2013
Kevin Gosztola: ‘We Steal Secrets’ Documentary is a Wikileaks Hit Piece
Gosztola on FDL ...Overall, the film makes the choice to be about the personalities of Assange and Manning rather than a film that truly explores what it has been like for those involved in the release of over a half million documents to be targeted by the most powerful country in the world. WikiLeaks forced state secrets revealing corruption, crimes, fraud, misconduct, etc, into the open for the world to see, but, rather than telling a lesser known story about the backlash led by the US government against the organization, Gibney opts to highlight Manning’s struggle with his gender identity and how Assange’s egotistical personal battles have been a drag on WikiLeaks, which have been covered extensively by establishment mediaand in a related story, see "WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of "Anti-WikiLeaks Documentary" @ Common Dreams - i haven't seen Gibney's other film "Taxi to the Dark Side" but can only imagine that among its tepid, hand-wringing criticism of torture that it narrows the debate with the typical "but Teh Terrorists attacked us" line of bullshittery .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, May 25, 2013
Ray Manzarek-The Story of Riders on the Storm – YouTube
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, May 20, 2013Ray Manzarek – Music Biography, Credits and Discography : AllMusic
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, May 20, 2013Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at 74 – Arts & Entertainment – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, May 20, 2013Jane Mayer: A Word from Our Sponsor – Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
Mayer in The New Yorker ..Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The movie had been produced independently, in part with support from the Gates Foundation. “Park Avenue” is a pointed exploration of the growing economic inequality in America and a meditation on the often self-justifying mind-set of “the one per cent.” As a narrative device, Gibney focusses on one of the most expensive apartment buildings in Manhattan—740 Park Avenue—portraying it as an emblem of concentrated wealth and contrasting the lives of its inhabitants with those of poor people living at the other end of Park Avenue, in the Bronx. Among the wealthiest residents of 740 Park is David Kochyou know the rest of the story .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, May 20, 2013