Category: media

“Exergames turn out to be much digital ado about nothing, at least as far as measurable health benefits for children. ‘Active’ video games distributed to homes with children do not produce the increase in physical activity that naïve parents (like me) expected.”

#3: “The shows do tend to feature one major antagonistic presence: The Evil Company Man, who always has an eye on the bottom line and all too often has the gall to censor the protagonists’ brilliance.”

“Dick Clark Productions counts among its assets more than 30 years of episodes of ‘American Bandstand,’ the weekly dance show of top hits that usually featured big-name singers performing as well. That would seem to be a potential gold mine of rock ‘n’ roll history, but making money off of it is another story. Although Dick Clark Productions (DCP) owns the shows, it doesn’t own the musical rights to the performances (most of which were lip-synced).”

“When it comes to Asian American actors and their younger YouTubing peers, who should be schooling whom? At a time when Asian American actors like Kang struggle to score the limited roles open to them in film and TV, YouTubers like Higa are amassing huge audiences without going to a single cattle call, pulling in six-figure salaries from the online ads that accompany their broadcasts. Both groups collide on You Offend Me, You Offend My Family, a new online network that’s part of YouTube’s expanding stable of channels dedicated to original programming.”

“The ruling, which arose from a legal battle over the indecency rules between the FCC, News Corp.’s Fox and Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, means that broadcast TV will continue to have to steer clear of the swear words and nudity that have become prevalent on much of cable television, especially during hours when children might be in the viewing audience.”

“[There’s] a movement towards exposing the hypocrisies of Indian society about sex, drugs, development and injustice. And it’s a movement that is not going unnoticed.”

“Because the Commission failed to give Fox or ABC fair notice prior to the broadcasts in question that fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found actionably indecent, the Commission’s standards as applied to these broadcasts were vague,” the court said.

“After You Can Count on Me, Lonergan made what may be the best film of the decade.” (So legend has it.) “So why did you never get to see it?” (Just about nobody did.)

“It’s going to be pretty complex. This new kind of TV industrial complex … will emerge where you’ve got the NBC/Comcast/Universals butting heads against some really talented guy who just graduated NYU film school.”

“Her success points to an appetite for humor from a female point of view. But unlike stars such as Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig, who honed their craft in the”Saturday Night Live” writers’ room, Oxford found and shaped her comedic voice in online chat rooms and blogs and on Twitter.”