Category: issues

Arts journalist Alice Goldfarb Marquis contends that public financing warps how we do culture in America. The Idler

Chicago Tribune

Seventy-one Carnegie Mellon University students lost their computer privileges for the rest of the semester after officials staged a surprise raid and found the students had MP3’d copyrighted music online. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Florida university creates a doctoral program to turn out “public intellectuals.” So now you need a degree to drop a literary reference at a cocktail party? Chronicle of Higher Education
     AND: Camille Paglia retorts: “They’re going to groom people–what? To be me? Slate 

Clips of movie nominated for Canada’s top film award can’t be shown on national broadcast of this weekend’s awards because Canadian judge has banned it from the air. National Post

won’t boycott one of the major broadcast networks. Instead will hold hearings on the lack of racial diversity on US airwaves. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

US Congress was ready to pass tax incentives for low budget movies encouraging them to keep production in US. Then bill’s sponsors discovered the plan might subsidize pornographers and the bill was quickly nixed. Variety

The cultural world is mired in itself – how to escape? Feed

A plan to build a $3 billion theme park in the former British colony in bid to boost flagging tourist industry. BBC

As the World Trade Organization begins meeting in Seattle, France vows to protect its movie industry from Hollywood incursion. French directors fear US will use WTO to undermine French government support for homegrown films in a drive to increase Hollywood’s dominant market share in France. Toronto Globe and Mail