By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
It’s not like you’re being asked to shove a tin of beans sideways up your ass.
Posted on July 27, 2020
The Fox News Coronavirus Misinformation Machine
By Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams
Fox News hit viewers with an “avalanche of misinformation” in its weekday coverage of the coronavirus crisis from July 6 through 10, according to a national media watchdog group that documented at least 253 instances of the network’s coverage undermining science, politicizing the pandemic, emphasizing economic issues, and promoting other lies or problematic positions in those five days alone.
Media Matters for America (MMFA) noted in a statement that its new analysis released Thursday follows Yahoo News reporting from earlier this month which claims that Fox News’ messaging on COVID-19 was undergoing a “remarkable turn” from its earlier coverage to “acknowledge . . . that the coronavirus is a far graver threat.”
In contrast with the kind of shift reported by Yahoo, MMFA revealed that:
Posted on July 18, 2020
Tom Hanks Meets His Match
By David Rutter
Tom Hanks has always been the perfect movie American mid-level military manager. Smart, dedicated, strong but not overbearing or willful. He is a mannerly soldier and, if not a father figure, at least a good uncle model.
He now has found his perfect leading lady to complement that personality. She is powerful, elegant, heroic, and sleek. And deadly.
She is a World War II destroyer. Greyhound, the fiction-based-on-real-events movie about their relationship, is big. How big?
Apple’s spokesfolks have told Deadline analysts that Greyhound has become the largest opening-weekend release ever for Apple TV and turned in a viewing audience commensurate with a summer theatrical box office hit. That’s what it was built to be.
Posted on July 17, 2020
NBC’s 1976 Bicentennial Special
By The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
Including commercials for Stroh’s beer, the Dodge Colt, the AMC Pacer, the Volkswagen Rabbit, and Krylon spray paint.
Posted on July 4, 2020
Remembering M*A*S*H Theme Song Composer Johnny Mandel
Suicide Is Painless
“Johnny Mandel, who composed and arranged for some of the leading big bands of the 1940s and ’50s before establishing himself as a writer of memorable movie scores and themes like ‘The Shadow of Your Smile,’ ‘Emily’ and ‘Suicide Is Painless,’ died on Monday at his home in Ojai, Calif. He was 94,” the New York Times reports.
“Mike Altman, the teenage son of Robert Altman, the director of M*A*S*H . . . wrote the words for “Suicide Is Painless,” Mr. Mandel told JazzWax, after his father tried writing them himself but decided, “I can’t write anything nearly as stupid as what we need.”
Posted on July 1, 2020