Category: media

“Watching the WikiLeaks story unfold on TV has been both an education and a delight. For a start, it seems to me that television news is at a loss when it comes to understanding, embracing and harvesting the online world. The WikiLeaks story has highlighted this and perhaps even put TV news on the defensive.”

“Broadcast veterans and analysts say that the Republican party’s newfound control of congress may spell the end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — the organization that distributes parts of the federal largesse to non-profit media.”

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“As colleges across the country look for ways to tighten budgets amid recession-induced shortfalls, some administrators — most recently in the South — have focused on college radio, leading even well-endowed universities to sell off their FM stations.”

“For consumer groups, the vote is about whether the Internet will end up looking a lot more like cable television — where the folks who provide your connection get to determine what content you have access to — rather than the traditional open Net. They’re worried that the rules, ostensibly designed to prevent that from happening, won’t go far enough.”

“In an age when studios claim that box-office salvation will be found in new projection technology like Imax and 3-D, projectionists themselves are facing complete and total annihilation.”

“The deeper you dig into the fight between these two Internet companies, the less clear it is who’s in the right. In the meantime, the FCC needs congressional support to impose tougher rules on the ISPs–and already, the incoming Republican committee chairs in the House are vowing to prevent any new neutrality rules.”

“Digital media have not only created a world starkly different from the world of a mere 15 years ago, they have changed the way people who live in the world think, behave, create and consume. They have facilitated a generation gap that makes the divide between Boomers and their parents narrow by comparison.”

“The ‘Blue Valentine’ rating is the latest in a string of controversial decisions by the MPAA and its Classification and Ratings Administration board that have raised the anger of filmmakers and moviegoers.”

“Back when I was a kid you watched old movies with alarming regularity because at certain times of the day and week they dominated the dial.” But there is so much good new TV that kids never have to see the old stuff.