Australian Police Admit Illegally Snooping on Journalist

Dave Bredeson / Dreamstime.comToday we have a reminder from Australia that when government collects massive amounts of private information abuse ultimately follows. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) admitted today that an officer illegally accessed a journalist’s call records...

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Neil Gaiman’s American Gods Makes for a Raucous Television Adaptation

‘American Gods,’ StarzAmerican Gods. Starz. Sunday, April 30, 9 p.m.




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When Shadow Moon, a newly released prison inmate flying home for a funeral, expresses his admiration for a con artist he’s just spotted...

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ESPN Will Get Better, or Fail Trying

glemak/flickrESPN, which has lost millions of subscribers in recent years, announced it would be laying off 100 employees, mostly on-air talent, as The Hollywood Reporter reports—they are not the first big layoffs at the sports network, but represent ESPN’s continuing efforts to...

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Bill O'Reilly: The Kennedy Conspiracy Years

As we await the next stage of Bill O’Reilly‘s career—RT host? FCC commissioner? down-on-his-luck high-school basketball coach?—let’s set the Wayback Machine for 1979 and check out one of the fallen Fox star’s earlier incarnations. Before he was the Joe Pyne of cable...

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The Handmaid’s Tale Lands an Excellent Adaptation

‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ HuluGreat News. NBC. Tuesday, April 25, 9 p.m.




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The Handmaid’s Tale. Hulu. Available Wednesday, April 26.
When The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s account of a...

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Trump, the Media, and the First 100 Days: Matt Welch on Kennedy

Some big news in cable TV’s 8 o’clock time slot…. The terrific and successful Fox Business News program Kennedy tonight will weigh Vice President Mike Pence’s claim today that President Donald Trump is “off to a great start” against a new Media Research Center...

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Drupal Developer Larry Garfield Ostracized Over Involvement in Sci-Fi Based Kink Community

covers of Gor books by John NormanHere’s another good example of the limits of liberal “tolerance”: in the name of equality and diversity, tech leaders have turned against a long-respected member of their community over his private and consensual sex practices. Sure, the...

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CIA Head Pompeo Would Like to Decide What Counts as a Real Media Outlet

Riccardo Savi/TNS/NewscomMike Pompeo, the former Republican congressman who is now President Donald Trump’s director of the CIA, wants to protect America from fascism and authoritarian regimes by cracking down on media outlets that publish information he doesn’t want them...

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Documentaries Put Spotlight on War Propaganda

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American Experience: The Great War. PBS. Monday, April 10, 9 p.m.
Growing up, I was completely absorbed by a CBS documentary series called The...

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Victim in United Flight Debacle Gets Smear Treatment

Gordon Tipeme / Dreamstime.comYou would think that an elderly doctor (69 years old!) being filmed getting dragged by police off a United airplane in order to make room for the airline employees would be immune to the “He’s no angel” defense of government violence.
You would...

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Lousy News: Red Eye, One of Cable TV’s Best Shows, Gets Canceled

On Monday afternoon, without any real prior warning, the on-air talent and behind-the-scenes weirdos of Red Eye, the past decade’s most oddly compelling cable news program, were told by Fox management that their show would be euthanized this Friday. Thus ends not just the most...

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Guerrilla Lobs Bombs at Romanticized History of ‘70s Violence

‘Guerrilla,’ ShowtimeGuerrilla. Showtime. Sunday, April 16, 9 p.m.




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Before we get to everything else about Showtime’s Guerrilla—how it’s intelligent, insightful, resonant, well-acted and all...

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Denmark Proves We Don't Need the FCC

Marco Assini/FlickrAmericans often look to Scandinavian countries for examples of successful policy and governance. It’s easy to see why: These countries boast some of the best quality-of-life rankings in the world. Denmark in particular is praised for its stellar telecommunications...

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The Neighborhood of Make-Believe Prepares for War

WQEDFor a week in 1983, life took a dark turn in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Over the course of five episodes of Mister Rogers, a mixture of miscommunication and anxiety convinced King Friday that another neighborhood nearby was stockpiling weapons. The king then ordered a major arms...

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