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Rethinking the Media Monopoly: Ben Bagdikian Misses the Targetnew
Two decades after publishing "The Media Monopoly," Ben Bagdikian is arguing that the new media monopoly has "played a central role" in pushing the country's politics to the nutty right. The trouble is, he doesn't come close to proving that point.
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
07-15-2004 |
Media
These Robots Have a Few Loose Screwsnew
This summer, Will Smith saves the world from … robots.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Proyas, I, Robot
The Cole Porter Storynew
Affectionate biography of Cole Porter's life is packed wall-to-wall with song-and-dance numbers but is short on new insights.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Duff Enoughnew
Hilary Duff's Cinderella tale goes splat like a pumpkin.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Rosman, A Cinderella Story
Removable Alien: Ansar Mahmood Suffers Setbacknew
Ansar Mahmood, picked up in post-9/11 sweeps and convinced by a public defender to plead guilty to harboring illegals, has become a cause celebre across the country -- but that hasn't saved him from deportation.
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
07-15-2004 |
Immigration
Anchorman Builds to Outlandish Laughsnew
Of all those countless comedies that star Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, the Wilson brothers or some combination thereof, this is the funniest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Director Updates Classic Bruised, Bitter Film Noirnew
You don't need to know what London criminal Will Graham (Clive Owen) saw or did to understand him in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Will is hardwired by the rules of the film noir genre -- which Hodges honors with due reverence -- for revenge.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Cold Porter: Film Never Attains Effervescencenew
The biopic De-Lovely strains so hard to capture songwriter Cole Porter's elegant sophistication that you appreciate his effortless music all the more.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Irwin Winkler, De-Lovely
The Trilogy Has a Three-Way with Perspectivenew
Belvaux tests the adage by constructing three separate but interlocking films, each in a different genre. See one of The Trilogy's installments and you won't be able to resist seeing them all.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucas Belvaux, The Trilogy
Canadians View America as Nutty Relative Who's Gone Berserknew
Over two weeks in Canada and the Adirondacks in upstate New York, I asked 104 Canadians and 51 Americans: "What do you think of Bush and the Iraq War?" Ninety of the Canadians and 42 Americans disapproved of the war. A slightly smaller number disliked Bush.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-15-2004 |
Commentary
Owners of Abandoned Hazardous Waste Left Warning Signsnew
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcer Bob Rosen was dumbfounded that a now-defunct company left 13,000 drums, most of them filled with hazardous waste, in an open-air shipping depot in southeast Atlanta. Then he spotted a stream of fluid spouting from a cracked barrel.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
07-15-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Bringing Back the Salmon: Gail Norton Claims Credit for Bushnew
Interior Secretary Gail Norton jetted into Oregon to claim credit for returning salmon and steelhead to the Deschutes River "for the first time since 1968" on Tuesday. The Pelton Round Butte Dam complex has been the biggest stumbling block to healthy anadromous salmon fisheries in the high desert rivers for the last 50 years.
The Source Weekly |
Lacey Phillabaum |
07-14-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Government's War on Soldiersnew
They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
07-14-2004 |
War
What If Bush 'Wins'?new
Sure, hope for the best. But we'd better have a plan if we get four more years.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
07-13-2004 |
Commentary
Michael Moore Is Rubber, His Critics Are Glue
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an indictment of the elite national media as much as the Bush Administration. That same media has, unsurprisingly, turned its guns against Moore.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg, Senior News Editor |
07-12-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
