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Posted on February 21, 2020
By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
“Can we all at least concede that chopping down the most biodiverse areas on the planet for palm oil plantations so that we can enjoy essential products like face wash, instant noodles and twiglets is a bizarre way for a species to behave?”
Posted on February 18, 2020
By Jeff Cohen/Common Dreams
CNN and CBS do it. NPR and PBS do it. They all do it.
It’s a “gentlemen’s agreement” between elite media and their establishment guests – a courtesy major news outlets bestow upon former officials who get to pontificate and editorialize about today’s events with no worry they’ll be identified by their jobs today.
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal.
Messina was introduced and repeatedly identified only by his former positions: “Former Obama Campaign Manager” and “Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration.”
As is typical, viewers weren’t told what Messina’s current job is – perhaps far more relevant information than his positions many years ago.
Posted on February 14, 2020
By Joelle Renstrom/New America
After Google’s “Loretta” Super Bowl commercial aired, my friend grabbed his phone and started texting his parents, both of whom are in their late 70s.
“This is so perfect for them,” he said excitedly, undoubtedly imagining a future in which his parents can ask Google about personal details they’ve forgotten.”What’s my sister’s favorite food?” his dad might ask while grocery shopping. “When’s my youngest son’s birthday?” his mom might ask, without having to worry about anyone’s reaction to the fact that she forgot it.
Losing the ability to remember memories and details about people you love is a special form of hell. That’s why it’s hard to oppose anything that genuinely brings comfort to people with dementia. As a society, we outsourced our memories and our knowledge to Google a long time ago. Why remember something when we can look it up online? But the commercial disturbed me because while we’ve already given Google access to our dearest memories, there’s something scary and dehumanizing about letting Google dictate what happens with them.
Posted on February 6, 2020
By Michael Schulson/Undark
For years, experts have said that Goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand founded by the actor and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow, markets pseudoscience and overblown cures. And for years, despite the criticism, Goop has just kept growing.
Now the company, which was valued at $250 million in 2018, seems poised to reach an even larger audience. Earlier this month, Goop announced details of three new ventures: a distribution partnership with the cosmetics giant Sephora; a “wellness experience at sea” with Celebrity Cruises; and – to the chagrin of many science advocates – a six-part series on Netflix, the streaming service with more than 150 million subscribers.
The Netflix show features Paltrow and colleagues exploring a range of alternative healing practices, including energy healing, exorcism, and sessions with psychic mediums.
“What we try to do at Goop is to explore ideas that may seem out there, or too scary,” Elise Loehnen, the company’s chief content officer, explains in the series trailer, which also boasts that the show will feature risky and unregulated treatments.
“We’re here one time, one life,” Paltrow exudes in the trailer, reflecting her signature embrace-new-ideas attitude. “How can we really milk the shit out of this?”
Posted on January 28, 2020
By One America News Network
One America News Network (“OAN”) has announced that Chanel Rion will lead OAN’s White House coverage as the network’s Chief White House Correspondent.
“We’re delighted to have Chanel lead our White House coverage. She’s fully engaged in the news cycle and not afraid to ask the tough questions,” stated Robert Herring, Sr., CEO of One America News Network. “Chanel has garnered a large following amongst OAN viewers.”
Ms. Rion has been instrumental in One America News’s coverage of President Trump’s re-election campaign, the White House, and US National Security. She has taken her reporting and investigative efforts globally – reporting from the North/South Korean border; Kyiv, Ukraine; and Budapest, Hungary.
Posted on January 24, 2020
By NASA
Four astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for three spacewalks in January to complete battery upgrades and finalize repairs to an invaluable cosmic ray detector.
Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA are scheduled to conduct spacewalks Wednesday, Jan. 15, and Monday, Jan. 20, to finish replacing nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries that store power generated by the station’s solar arrays on the station’s port truss.
Assuming the battery work goes as planned, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and space station Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) will exit the station Saturday, Jan. 25, to finish installing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s (AMS) new cooling apparatus and lines begun in November and December, and verify they are ready for use.
Posted on January 10, 2020
By Paul Wells/The Conversation
For more than 100 years, across the world, in many diverse cultures, animation has featured talking animals. Indeed, the anthropomorphized cat, dog, mouse, ape, duck and rabbit have populated animation in a way that has defined much of its distinctive nature – by using animals to subvert social and cultural norms.
Netflix’s animated comedy-drama BoJack Horseman is another example of this. But BoJack, played by Will Arnett, is not a horse as playful companion like Maximus in Tangled or Bullseye in Toy Story. He is not an abused victim like Boxer in Animal Farm, and does not possess the lyrical equine beauty of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. BoJack is literally a horse-man.
Like Bottom in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he seems to have acquired a head that makes him think and feel differently. Not for BoJack the revelry of love, however. His thoughts are dominated by his own mortality, sense of failure, and deep misanthropy.
Posted on January 4, 2020
Local Investigative Blogger Shows How It’s Done
“Business-friendly Republicans in West Michigan may be underwhelmed by the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump,” the Michigan Advance reports.
“But based on random interviews around Grand Rapids this weekend, following a national news segment many found unrepresentative of the area, many locals find impeachment critical for holding the president accountable.
“Meet the Press, the stalwart Sunday morning political gabfest on NBC, has made Kent County in West Michigan a major point of focus for its 2020 election coverage.
“On Sunday that included a segment with six Grand Rapids-area Republicans sharing their lack of enthusiasm with the impeachment effort during a roundtable discussion filmed at Brewery Vivant, a Grand Rapids brewery in the trendy East Hills neighborhood.”
Let’s let Emptywheel, aka Marcy Wheeler, pick it up from here.
Posted on December 17, 2019
By CraigS1996’s Commercial Vault via YouTube
From Cover Girl makeup with Salt-n-Pepa to Hamburger Helper, these are the commercials that ran during WGN-TV’s 1997 airing of Miracle On 34th Street.
Posted on December 12, 2019
