media

I’m the first one to admit that I know nothing about programming (and don’t care to, truth be known) and the competition amongst the various platforms for streaming video is of little interest to me except based on what I see on my screen.
By that criterion, my first experience last night with Microsoft’s Silverlight, while […]

I suppose FOX News’ lack of integrity will come as a surprise to no one else, but it still occasionally surprises me — not the lack of it, as much as the poor job of demonstrating it. It’s not even good ’shopping. Apparently they have no more respect for themselves or their viewers […]

Andrew O’Hehir’s blog in Salon examines Peter Askins’ new film “Trumbo,” about the life of the most famous of the blacklisted filmmakers in the ’50’s witch hunts, along with the lessons the three generations since can take from the history of censorship and political gagging of Americans.
If the Hollywood blacklist and the entire Red Scare […]