Category: media

“Hundreds of employers working on the BBC’s news output, both on television and radio, could lose their jobs as the corporation stretches to meet budget cuts. It currently employs around 8,000 journalists, all of whom are expected to be assessed under an appraisal system throughout this year.”

“More than anything else, it is a work of dazzling formal and poetic brilliance, a kind of study of filmic choreography. George Balanchine has nothing on Tony Scott’s exhibition of counterpoint and organization as men and fighter planes maneuver on the deck of an aircraft carrier.”

“So why choose to accentuate the zygomatics to transform a former Sexiest Woman in the World into a mystical villainess?” (They were prosthetics, by the way.)

“Why is CBS big on TV but not Twitter? Simple demographics explain a lot: CBS still has the oldest audience among broadcasters with a median viewer age of 58. And older people use Twitter less.”

“Between 2004 and 2012, California lost more than 16,000 film- and television-industry jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in more than $1.5 billion in lost wages and economic activity.”

“Loach has reiterated his belief that some critics find the idea of a politically informed working class ‘abhorrent.’ The reason, he told the Guardian, was that ‘by and large critics are people who live in darkened rooms – they don’t meet the people.'”

“Vancouver has developed into a world-class centre for visual effects and animation production,” said Randy Lake, executive vice president and general manager at Sony Pictures Digital Productions, in a statement issued on Friday morning. “It offers an attractive lifestyle for artists in a robust business climate.”

“Why would Cineplex want to draw any kind of comparison with airlines, where seats are always either too jammed or too expensive? And will moviegoers happily accept a two-class system for what has long been egalitarian first-come, first-served cinema seating?”

Chicago Public Media (a/k/a WBEZ), which produces the radio hit, will distribute the program itself via the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), followingr Public Radio International’s decision earlier this year to drop the show.

September 18, 1970. The guests were John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara. “They were on hand to promote their new movie, but for thirty-five minutes they smoked, flopped around on the floor, and generally tormented Cavett, whose questions they’d planned to ignore.” (They were long since drunk, of course.) (includes full video and new comments by Cavett)