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Clint thinks political correctness is killing humour.
Comparing conflicts by media coverage adjusted for death toll. Israelis killing Gazans is apparently over 800 times more newsworthy than Africans massacring Africans.
The SMH thinks some beheadings are much more newsworthy than others.
The decline of newspapers also means the decline of oversight: particularly of the police.
The threat to free speech from “defamation of religion” laws.
About a documentary on the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Popular culture was ahead of the curve on a black US President. Indeed, the first was in 1933.
About a documentary which is a touch critical of US media performance in the recent Presidential election. The maker of the documentary is finding the media reaction is rather reinforcing his point.
About gay bloggers. About the gay bloggers not mentioned.
A noted PBS liberal journalist’s gay-hunting past. More. More on his general smugness.
In praise of the The Watchman as a graphic novel, if not its political vision. Also in praise of the graphic novel.
The man who gave us this review of Sin City- We have, it is clear, reached the lively dead end of a process that was initiated by a fretful Martin Scorsese and inflamed, with less embarrassed glee, by Tarantino: the process of knowing everything about violence and nothing about suffering. -being brutal about The Watchmen: “Watchmen,” like “V for Vendetta,” harbors ambitions of political satire, and, to be fair, it should meet the needs of any leering nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the military-industrial complex, and whose deepest fear-deeper even than that of meeting a woman who requests intelligent conversation-is that the Warren Commission may have been right all along. … Incoherent, overblown, and grimy with misogyny, “Watchmen” marks the final demolition of the comic strip, and it leaves you wondering: where did the comedy go? (Spoiler alert in full review.) Being really upset about the film for other reasons. Being offended about such offense. Watchmen dolls (I am sorry, figurines) and lunchboxes.
Clint thinks political correctness is killing humour.
Comparing conflicts by media coverage adjusted for death toll. Israelis killing Gazans is apparently over 800 times more newsworthy than Africans massacring Africans.
The SMH thinks some beheadings are much more newsworthy than others.
The decline of newspapers also means the decline of oversight: particularly of the police.
The threat to free speech from “defamation of religion” laws.
About a documentary on the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Popular culture was ahead of the curve on a black US President. Indeed, the first was in 1933.
About a documentary which is a touch critical of US media performance in the recent Presidential election. The maker of the documentary is finding the media reaction is rather reinforcing his point.
About gay bloggers. About the gay bloggers not mentioned.
A noted PBS liberal journalist’s gay-hunting past. More. More on his general smugness.
In praise of the The Watchman as a graphic novel, if not its political vision. Also in praise of the graphic novel.
The man who gave us this review of Sin City- We have, it is clear, reached the lively dead end of a process that was initiated by a fretful Martin Scorsese and inflamed, with less embarrassed glee, by Tarantino: the process of knowing everything about violence and nothing about suffering. -being brutal about The Watchmen: “Watchmen,” like “V for Vendetta,” harbors ambitions of political satire, and, to be fair, it should meet the needs of any leering nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the military-industrial complex, and whose deepest fear-deeper even than that of meeting a woman who requests intelligent conversation-is that the Warren Commission may have been right all along. … Incoherent, overblown, and grimy with misogyny, “Watchmen” marks the final demolition of the comic strip, and it leaves you wondering: where did the comedy go? (Spoiler alert in full review.) Being really upset about the film for other reasons. Being offended about such offense. Watchmen dolls (I am sorry, figurines) and lunchboxes.