Film, media and art links
Adorable 10 year old humiliates TV host.
Great ad.
Cutesy global singalong.
Jon Stewart suggests the MSNBC anchor may have gone just a little bit too far: and is very very funny while doing it.
If the Superbowl was directed by Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Goddard, Werner Herzog.
k. d. lang sings “Hallelujah” at the Winter Olympics and in a 2005 standing ovation performance.
The BBC interviews senior NYT editor on why they held the information on the capture of the Taliban’s military commander when they did not do similarly for the previous Administration.
Psychblogger reflects on interviews with Hitler’s secretary.
Trailer for a documentary on the Grameen Bank coming to the US.
Amazing review of Marc Almond’s latest album.
Bad demographic trends for classical music.
In the land of Oz, the push is on to censor images of small-breasted women.
J. R. R. Tolkien as libertarian: it is estimated 150 million people have read The Lord of the Rings.
Some wisdom from Helen Razer about talking to the press.
Oz and Kiwiland are the only two developed economies who block IMF staff talking to the media about their country evaluations.
About the memoirs of Patti Smith:
… the two were nonetheless friends until the end. Passionate friends, which is really the defining image of this somber and rather lovely book: two strange Catholic children, quite un-at-home in the world, treating each other with heroic tenderness, heroic generosity.
About the sad death-by-sycohants of Michael Jackson
Pressure from gay bloggers apparently got the Obama Administration moving on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
A particularly egregious case of misreporting of science.
Pointing out that CNN and FoxNews provided a range of commentators on the Massachusetts result and MSNBC didn’t. FoxNews continues to get the audience:
According to Neilsen, Fox News drew an astonishing 6.2 million total viewers during primetime Tuesday night, compared to only 1.5 million for CNN and 1.1 million for MSNBC.
Clearly, those numbers are driven in part by the fact that Fox's right-leaning audience was intensely interested in the outcome of this race. But it also had to do with the fact that Fox simply provided more, and better, coverage of the event. Fox was the only network to cover Coakley and Brown's speeches in their entirety.
Jon Stewart on Fox (the O’Reilly show).
Air America has declared bankruptcy.
Poll finds FoxNews is the most trusted network (pdf) (only because it is the only network that has more people trust it than distrust it).
ACORN-busters busted. The Greeks had all that stuff about hubris …
A journalist makes a mistake in his blogging, and then …
About the experience of screening a very un-pc documentary at a film festival.
A case of not being intimidated by lawyers. Explaining the law of parody and public use involved. About intellectual property.
A nice juxtaposition of two NYT editorials, 4 years apart.
The great thing about AGW for the media is that gives weather (which is always happening) an overarching narrative: sometimes even they realise they have taken it a bit too far. In the US, the dying newspaper monopolies have not seen to keep their readers informed about climate science scandals (unlike the competitive UK newspaper market). Claiming that reporting scepticism on warming is wrong. A response. The role of bloggers in the rise of climate catastrophe scepticism. The NYT has finally noticed that things may be amiss:
facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right-leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists.
Don’t you love that ‘even’? About what the NYT is missing. About how the US press is lagging the British press.
Great ad.
Cutesy global singalong.
Jon Stewart suggests the MSNBC anchor may have gone just a little bit too far: and is very very funny while doing it.
If the Superbowl was directed by Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Goddard, Werner Herzog.
k. d. lang sings “Hallelujah” at the Winter Olympics and in a 2005 standing ovation performance.
The BBC interviews senior NYT editor on why they held the information on the capture of the Taliban’s military commander when they did not do similarly for the previous Administration.
Psychblogger reflects on interviews with Hitler’s secretary.
Trailer for a documentary on the Grameen Bank coming to the US.
Amazing review of Marc Almond’s latest album.
Bad demographic trends for classical music.
In the land of Oz, the push is on to censor images of small-breasted women.
J. R. R. Tolkien as libertarian: it is estimated 150 million people have read The Lord of the Rings.
Some wisdom from Helen Razer about talking to the press.
Oz and Kiwiland are the only two developed economies who block IMF staff talking to the media about their country evaluations.
About the memoirs of Patti Smith:
… the two were nonetheless friends until the end. Passionate friends, which is really the defining image of this somber and rather lovely book: two strange Catholic children, quite un-at-home in the world, treating each other with heroic tenderness, heroic generosity.
About the sad death-by-sycohants of Michael Jackson
Pressure from gay bloggers apparently got the Obama Administration moving on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
A particularly egregious case of misreporting of science.
Pointing out that CNN and FoxNews provided a range of commentators on the Massachusetts result and MSNBC didn’t. FoxNews continues to get the audience:
According to Neilsen, Fox News drew an astonishing 6.2 million total viewers during primetime Tuesday night, compared to only 1.5 million for CNN and 1.1 million for MSNBC.
Clearly, those numbers are driven in part by the fact that Fox's right-leaning audience was intensely interested in the outcome of this race. But it also had to do with the fact that Fox simply provided more, and better, coverage of the event. Fox was the only network to cover Coakley and Brown's speeches in their entirety.
Jon Stewart on Fox (the O’Reilly show).
Air America has declared bankruptcy.
Poll finds FoxNews is the most trusted network (pdf) (only because it is the only network that has more people trust it than distrust it).
ACORN-busters busted. The Greeks had all that stuff about hubris …
A journalist makes a mistake in his blogging, and then …
About the experience of screening a very un-pc documentary at a film festival.
A case of not being intimidated by lawyers. Explaining the law of parody and public use involved. About intellectual property.
A nice juxtaposition of two NYT editorials, 4 years apart.
The great thing about AGW for the media is that gives weather (which is always happening) an overarching narrative: sometimes even they realise they have taken it a bit too far. In the US, the dying newspaper monopolies have not seen to keep their readers informed about climate science scandals (unlike the competitive UK newspaper market). Claiming that reporting scepticism on warming is wrong. A response. The role of bloggers in the rise of climate catastrophe scepticism. The NYT has finally noticed that things may be amiss:
facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right-leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists.
Don’t you love that ‘even’? About what the NYT is missing. About how the US press is lagging the British press.