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Welcome 2 Chicago
“There is a lot going on in Chicago. We at Heart Of The City TV hope to tackle some of the current issues that plague our city, and shed light on these topics of equality, race, violence, and finding peace. Chapter one of ‘Welcome To Chicago’ will be premiering September 1, 2016.”
Posted on August 8, 2016
By Marc C-Scott/The Conversation
I grew up with video cassette recorders – VCRs. I still remember rushing off to the the video store to rent the latest movie, hoping that there was at least one copy still on the shelf that didn’t have the “Sorry I’m Out” tag placed in the cover.
In 2001, despite the emergence of DVDs, the portfolio for my undergraduate degree application was sent on VHS. That’s all they accepted.
I still have a cupboard full of VHS tapes – films I purchased as well as my own video work. But now, viewing these tapes will become far more difficult.
The last manufacturer of VCRs, the Funai Corporation of Japan, stopped manufacturing at July’s close.
Rob Pearce/Flickr, CC BY
Posted on August 2, 2016
Not Progress; Time Travel
The social legacies of the London Games: Reagan and Thatcher are back.
Posted on August 1, 2016
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
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
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
Lazy Journalists, Tits & Dragons
Westminster is not Middle Earth, as much as it might sometimes seem like it.
Posted on July 11, 2016
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
Media Enables Narrative Of Fear
Either way, in or out, the little person is getting fucked hard by someone.
Posted on June 23, 2016
