When Left Is Also Right
Insert Tim Kaine, progressive, conservative, neoliberal and neoconservative for an American equivalent. Hell, insert Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, for that matter.
Posted on July 25, 2016
How The BBC Blew Brexit
By Angela Phillips/The Conversation
As Britain reflects on the fallout from the EU Referendum, analysis from Loughborough University demonstrates that the BBC, in common with all other media, ignored concerns of Labor voters in favor of an entirely artificial notion of “balance” that was pitched as a ball-by-ball commentary of a Conservative power struggle.
Labor members canvassing in the streets and housing estates, waited in vain for the BBC – the country’s most trusted news source – to provide any serious analysis that could back up the Labor message on the doorstep. They had been expecting the BBC to deliver, as promised, “impartial and independent reporting of the campaign, providing them with fair coverage and rigorous scrutiny of the policies and campaigns of all relevant parties and campaign groups.”
Posted on July 18, 2016
The Inventor Of M*A*S*H
By Andrew George/The Conversation
When I was young, one of my favorite TV shows was M*A*S*H.
Set in a U.S. mobile hospital during the Korean War, the army doctors and nurses approached their work with wacky black humor. As the helicopter ambulances brought in the wounded to the tented Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) near the battlefront, they were triaged and patched up before being sent on to larger hospitals. This is a model for treating the wounded that was largely developed by a French surgeon, during the Napoleonic wars. He was Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, born 250 years ago this month.
Posted on July 13, 2016
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter! Real Life Is Not Game Of Thrones
Lazy Journalists, Tits & Dragons
Westminster is not Middle Earth, as much as it might sometimes seem like it.
Posted on July 11, 2016
Bozo’s 4th Of July Spectacular
By The Museum Of Classic Chicago Television
“Here’s a special Independence Day treat – a Bozo’s Circus salute to the 4th of July as aired on that day in 1978 on WGN Channel 9. Introduced by Frazier Thomas, with performers from The Diana School of Dance, (and featuring a patriotic Cooky and Bozo cameo appearance at the end!).”
Posted on July 5, 2016