I don't think this has been posted, worth a look and a chuckle in my humble opinion:
http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html
might as well start with
woodward. another turgid display of fourth estatemanship.
digbys take:
Woodward, like Broder and Sally and Richard Cohen and Cokie and the rest of the moribund DC establishment, are obsessed with the social and personal activities of their King (and their own relationships to him) and have absolutely no interest or insight into the corrupt, depraved, malevolent political force the Republican Washington establishment has become. (It's hardball politics!) As long as they are getting their due deference and nobody's slip is showing, they are more than happy to keep any behavior that the unwashed masses might find unpalatable under wraps --- things like war or institutionalized character assassination. The only scandals worth reporting are "too many marts" and "trashing the place" --- behaviors that imply the courtier's social mores are unimportant. Tsk tsk tsk.
17 years ago I had
this tribute album. Now it’s hagiography, which is to say a Hollywood movie.
Network tonight.
Prince Achmed was on Turner Classic Movies. Worth keeping an eye peeled for. Beautiful stuff.
74 degrees. im an outdoorsman. which is to say yes the windows are open.
Holy shit. Charlie Rose and Chalabi on PBS. It's a battle of the titans. They both believe themselves so much.
i thought directv should carry one of the satellite radio systems. and now it
does.
the j
ewish brain (it was a cover story in new york mag
azine not the new yorker you idiot!)
Superballs. Quicktime required. 18 MB.
Probably want to right click and save as..., or, on Mac, ctrl-click and save as...
Super sped up satellite feed of the entire hurricane season, with each storm named and its' path traced.
Wow.
just watched an aol pre-view of tonights g
ilmore girls. Jess confronts Rory about "not being you" and that her rich boyfriend Logan is a dick. looks like a good
one. 8pm on the WB. oh yeah.
D. and I saw
Network last night. I haven't seen it, other than short clips, since its original theatrical release in 1976. We just saw
Good Night, and Good Luck this afternoon.
Murrow gave us a vision of what television could become.
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.
RTNDA Convention, October 15, 1958
Network gave us a warning of what it would become. Murrow worried that television would simply "entertain, amuse and insulate". But he missed one trick. As Diane Christensen (Faye Dunaway) says, "The American people want somebody to articulate their rage for them." The public's hunger isn't simply to have their boredom amused, but to have their biases confirmed, their xenophobia stoked, their blood-lust sated.
Murrow knew how good television could be, but never imagined how bad it has become. One can only hope that this flick reminds the current generation of reporters of the history of their profession, and inspires them to speak truth to power.