The Lifetime TV network is pressing forward with a campaign to lure a younger, more urban, more homosexual audience, giving the lie to the notion that American homosexuals are endangered by widespread oppression.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Mel Gibson to Star in Crime Drama
For the first time since 2002, actor Mel Gibson will be the lead actor in a new movie. Gibson has signed on to star in Edge of Darkness, a crime thriller based on a 1985 BBC miniseries.
Obama Move Suggests Limits to Acceptable Black Americans’ Hatred of Whites
Finally suggesting that there are some boundaries to acceptable hatred of white people by black Americans, Sen. Barack Obama has cut his ties with his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ Game Tackles Serious Ideas, Issues
The latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto video game series takes on an interesting subject: immigration and the American Dream.
Miley Cyrus, Unprotected Celebrity
The embarrassing Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photo shows the value of public relations people—and why investing real money makes people more careful about what they do.
Fallon to Host NBC’s ‘Late Night’
Saturday Night Live alum Jimmy Fallon reportedly will take over Conan O’Brien’s spot as host of NBC’s Late Night next year.
ABC News Personalities Lambasted for Asking Real Questions of Democrat Presidential Candidates
A truly fascinating measure of the hegemony and absurdity of political correctness is the liberal elites’ furious reaction to ABC news personalities having asked the two ultraliberal remaining candidates for the Democrats’ presidential nomination a few mildly challenging questions.
TV Networks’ Audiences Slow to Return After Writers’ Strike
The media industry publication Advertising Age reports that viewers are not returning in hoped-for numbers to the TV shows they watched before the writers’ strike interrupted the television season, even though new episodes are airing. The Advertising Age article suggests that the convergence between broadcast and cable TV audience levels may be even greater than in recent years. This bodes well for audiences, as it further undermines the power of the big networks and portends a possible increase of consumer choice as competition makes the networks more resonsive to their audiences’ preferences. This won’t necessarily bring on a Golden Age of Television, as long as the most popular cable and broadcast networks are owned by a small cartel of media conglomerates, as they are today. Nonetheless, anything that further breaks up the networks’ oligopoly is good for the public at large. Something good may thus come from the writers’ and producers’ mutual greed.
The Great George MacDonald Fraser
The late British author George MacDonald Fraser (who died this year), was one of the great writers of our time. His humor, his courage, and above all, his classical liberal philosophy and willingness to challenge the politically correct orthodoxy of our times make his writings a tonic for those who understand and respect the tradition of liberty in Western society.
Why Academe Leans Left—And What Can Be Done About It
TAC correspondent Michael D’Virgilio points out that the American right has abdicated real involvement in education and left it to liberals and Marxists to form the minds of the nation’s citizens. Could anything be stupider?
The Ghost of Stalin in a New Staging of ‘Macbeth’
A new production of Macbeth shows that innovative stagings of classic plays sometimes work superbly, and that a rare occurrence of an anti-statist point of view makes for an enlightening and exhilarating experience.
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