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Monthly Archives: October 2009
PBS and the Great Hangover
Government broadcaster PBS is running a new, five-part series on a subject naturally interesting in our time: American Experience: The 1930s. Episodes are available for online viewing here. The program is just what one would expect from PBS: earnest, well-researched, skillfully presented, and eager to lick the boots of government while criticizing individual freedom for everything wrong in the world, S. T. Karnick writes.
Time Inc., Continues Downsizing
The repugnant Time Inc., publisher of Time magazine, is implementing massive employee layoffs, amounting to about 540 people let go, New York magazine reports. The media behemoth, once a bastion of bourgeois classical liberalism but for the past several decades a forum for statism and a plethora of other forced social distortions, has been battered by the rise of the internet and Time‘s increasing distance from its readers’ beliefs. One feels sympathy for the laid-off workers but must recognize that this is a very salubrious trend indeed. –S. T. Karnick
BBC Cuts Jobs
The British Broadcasting System, the very model of a bloated, sclerotic, elitist, statist government media organization, is cutting some of its fat. The Wall Street Journal reports.
No Left-wing Tolerance for Dissent
A liberal professor learns the limits of liberal "tolerance" and how the media feeding frenzy works. Daniel Crandall writes.
Confessions of a Cultural Dropout
Dropping out of culture isn’t an option for conservatives and others on the right if we ever want to see cultural renewal, argues Mike D’Virgilio.
Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Really Was
Released yesterday, This Is It is a behind the scenes look at rehearsals for the tour that never happened. It might be interesting, writes Mike D’Virgilio.
Rod Serling’s brave new world of TV
Before ‘The Twilight Zone,’ sci-fi was for kids — and writers didn’t run series, says Susan King in the L.A. Times.
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The Hinduization of America
The power of professions of cultural influence to affect people’s worldview is not well understood by the average politically obsessed conservative. Elect some conservative politician and somehow America will become a better place, they believe. It doesn’t work that way, Mike D’Virgilio writes.
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