Check this out.
"The Bush regime claims that North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and Cuba are part of an 'axis of evil'. In a remarkable two-part travelogue, reporter Ben Anderson, armed with a hidden camera and a tourist map, visits all six rogue states and tries to find the reality of life in some of the most repressive regimes in the world."
Airing on the BBC this month and next. Sounds great, and I don't get to see it. Anyone in the UK wanna videotape it and mail me a copy?
Is this anything like "Holidays In the Sun" by The Sex Pistols?
Posted by: Eric at January 27, 2003 11:18 PMIt was great, very fascinating look, I posted a few "extracts" of it on my site. And sure I can videotape and make a copy (it's repeated in a couple of days), just email me your addy and it's done (you gotta be able to view PAL tapes though). It should be required viewing for anyone blabbing on about "surgical wars" and "the iraqis will welcome this and that" or conversely those believing the 100% vote equalled 100% consensus.
The one shown yesterday was the first part, North Korea and Iraq, there's a second part tonight. It's amusing, but also rather serious. Very casual style, no hyped up commentary, and all the more 'moving' for that.
Posted by: nickie at January 28, 2003 06:01 AMAMERICAN TV SUCKS. No arguments here (aside from Iron Chef and MXC). Sometimes I can only marvel at how vaccuous and vapid the entire media is; major reports on national news are done on how Britney Spears styles her hair...ridiculous. God I hate TV.
Posted by: Jon the sexy bassist at November 18, 2003 10:50 AMwow, who was that sexy guy that posted before me? he plays bass in a band? I'll bet he's HOT!!! i luuuuuuuuuv musicians!!!!!!!!
Posted by: MoNiQuE85 at November 18, 2003 10:56 AMHi Guy here, I'm from MXC, and I just want to say, MXC kicks ass.
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November 16, 2004Tales of Media WoeSenate May Ram Copyright Bill- one of the most depressing stories of the day that didn't involve death or bombs. It's the music and movie industries' wet dream. It criminalizes peer-to-peer software makers, allows the government to file civil lawsuits on behalf of these media industries, and eliminates fair use. Fair use is the idea that I can use a snippet of a copyrighted work for educational, political, or satirical purposes, without getting permission from the copyright-holder first. And most tellingly, the bill legalizes technology that would automatically skip over "obejctionable content" (i.e. sex and violence) in a DVD, but bans devices that would automatically skip over commericals. This is a blatant, blatant, blatant gift to the movie industry. Fuck the movie industry, fuck the music industry, fuck the Senate. Music industry aims to send in radio cops- the recording industry says that you're not allowed to record songs off the radio, be it real radio or internet radio. And now they're working on preventing you from recording songs off internet radio through a mixture of law and technological repression (although I imagine their techno-fixes will get hacked pretty quickly). The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few- blogger Jeff Jarvis discovers that the recent $1.2 million FCC fine against a sex scene in Fox's "Married By America" TV show was not levied because hundreds of people wrote the FCC and complained. It was not because 159 people wrote in and complained (which is the FCC's current rationale). No, thanks to Jarvis' FOIA request, we find that only 23 people (of the show's several million viewers) wrote in and complained. On top of that, he finds that 21 of those letters were just copy-and-paste email jobs that some people attached their names to. Jarvis then spins this a bit by saying that "only 3" people actually wrote letters to the FCC, which is misleading but technically true. So somewhere between 3 and 23 angry people can determine what you can't see on television. Good to know. Reuters Union Considers Striking Over Layoffs- will a strike by such a major newswire service impact the rest of the world's media? Pentagon Starts Work On War Internet- the US military is talking about the creation of a global, wireless, satellite-aided computer network for use in battle. I think I saw a movie about this once... Conservative host returns to the air after week suspension for using racial slur- Houston radio talk show host (and somtime Rush Limbaugh substitute) Mark Belling referred to Mexican-Americans as "wetbacks" on his show. He was suspended for a couple of weeks, and then submitted a written apology for the racial slur to a local newspaper. But he seems to be using the slur and its surrounding controversy to boost his conservative cred with his listeners. Stay Tuned for Nudes- Cleveland TV news anchor Sharon Reed aired a story about artist Spencer Tunick, who uses large numbers of naked volunteers in his installations and photographs. The news report will be unique in that it will not blur or black-out the usual naughty bits. The story will air late at night, when it's allegedly okay with the FCC if you broadcast "indecent" material. The author of this article doesn't seem to notice that Reed first claims that this report is a publicity stunt, but then claims it's a protest against FCC repression. I'd like to think it's the latter, but I'm not that much of a sucker. More Media News |
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