Category: media

At issue is whether NPR feels her activities on behalf of the overtly partisan group are acceptable in light of her role as host of NPR’s “World of Opera.” NPR insists that it is impartial, but its politics have been much debated the last year.

“Three studies since 1999 have tracked educational television use and language development, and they found a link between increased TV time and developmental delays.”

“Starz has its channel-defining series in Boss, a wholly impressive new drama that comes out of the gate with gravitas, swagger, originality and intrigue. It’s the kind of series that truly puts Starz on the map (and if it makes two or three others, it will be a highly competitive three-way race in the pay cable field).”

“One negatively reviewed film” – Cars 2 – “especially one that goes on to become a megahit, isn’t enough to scratch the Pixar brand. But the commentary did dent morale at the studio, which until then had enjoyed an unbroken and perhaps unprecedented run of critical acclaim.”

Relative Insanity “will update Chekhov’s play to the present day and relocate the action from the Russian countryside to the Hamptons in upstate [sic] New York.” David Duchovny, Helen Hunt, Maggie Grace, Joan Chen and John Davidson star.

“Now in its sixth season, Dexter has proved immensely popular and successful. Dexter is, however, not the first serial killer we have inexplicably found ourselves rooting for. We look back at some of TV and cinema’s ambiguous ‘heroes’.”

Jeff Lindsay, author of the novels that are the basis for the popular television series: “Some believe that Dexter cares about justice. Dexter doesn’t care about justice, he cares about killing. He’s attractive because he’s dangerous.”

“It isn’t just an addictive game, it’s an unexpected source of wisdom.”

“The most troubling thing about ‘Anonymous’ is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber. It’s not even that England’s virgin Queen Elizabeth is turned into a wantonly promiscuous woman who is revealed to be both the lover and mother of de Vere. Rather, it’s that in making the case for de Vere, the film turns great plays into propaganda.”