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Watched Nightline’s “The Fallen”. It was respectful and appropriate. Putting faces to the number of dead is just the kind of accountability lacking in our government and media. Not doing so is irresponsible. Not to consider the true cost we’re demanding of our young people is wrong. I doubt ABC had winning an award in [...]
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Tonight Ted Koppel will honor the dead soldiers killed so far in Operation Iraqi Freedom. However, in markets where ABC is broadcast by the Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, ‘Nightline’ will be censored and pre-empted. Democracy Now! reports “98 percent of Sinclair’s political contributions in 2004 have gone to Republican candidates.”
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At first glance, the shocking photos of distressed Iraqis held by Americans in Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison seem like the work of overextended, misguided and possibly psychologically destabilized captors. Closer examination of one of the photos reveals references to an ancient catholic ritual in Spain called Semana Santa, or Holy Week. Classical Spanish painter [...]
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Apple’s iTunes Music Store now offers a pretty cool feature: playlists from radio stations across the country and Billboard charts. Of course you have to buy each song for 99¢ if you want more than a 30 second clip, but it’s finally possible to go to one place to find out what that song you [...]
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<rant class=”big_brother”>Is there really any ambiguity in the term “cease-fire” or does the pairing of two unmistakably defined words somehow form a meaning-free zone to “The Adults”? (Bush bragged before coming into office that his administration would seem like adults compared to Clinton’s cabinet.) They have basically already said that war is the only way [...]
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The Seattle Times reports that a woman was fired from Maytag Aircraft for taking photos of military caskets transporting soldiers’ remains. …she hoped the publication of the photo would help families of fallen soldiers understand the care and devotion that civilians and military crews dedicate to the task of returning the soldiers home. The same [...]
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From the same director as the remake below comes a documentary about Haiti’s “own true hero”, Jean L. Dominique, called The Agronomist. Jonathan Demme has always made complex films with a social consciousness, but this film stands out from his recent work as the true story of one man standing up against overwhelming forces for [...]
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It’s about time Hollywood made a film about the political use of fear and paranoia. A remake of The Manchurian Candidate fits that bill perfectly.
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As I said on August 12, 2003, Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Short, Happy Life of the Brown Oxford” would make a great film. According to last December’s Wired, it is in the works at Miramax.
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Take Back the Media is hosting a powerful animation that shows exactly what Bush was doing as people were dying in New York City on September 11, 2001. Why was he reading a book about a goat in a class full of children instead of telling our fighter planes to shoot down four (4) jets [...]
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