Tag Archives: television

The total pleasure of the passive goat.

I’m a liberal Vermonter, right? What that means, along with a lot of other things, is that I have to be smug about certain decisions that I’ve made, especially those decisions that somehow relate to the way “the rest of America” is choosing to live their lives.
I don’t enjoy being smug. But it’s what [...]

The technology behind the Super Bowl broadcast

From The technology behind the Super Bowl broadcast: “Steaming bodies in the snow. Bone-snapping tackles. The stiff-arm. These are the iconic images of pro football, and they’re low-tech in the extreme. While the game itself remains a contest of brute strength, raw speed, and little red challenge beanbags, the entire transmission infrastructure that brings the [...]

Cel - Le - Brate Good Times, C’mon! Let’s Celebrate

From The Huffington Post: “Fox News’ ratings…are down since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down 28 percent in primetime among all viewers, down 20 percent in primetime in the “money demo” (viewers aged 25-54) and down 7 percent in daytime viewership overall.” Could it be that our national nightmare may soon be [...]

Spin by Brian Springer

“Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and [...]

Mick Jagger Joins a New ABC Sitcom

Here’s the saga behind the creation of a pilot for ABC that is tentatively titled, “Let’s Rob Mick Jagger.”

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