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Why the Big Fade for Bruno?

William Bradley | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Harrison Ford, Russia, Posh Spice, Ali G, British TV, Bbc, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hbo, Nascar, Ron Paul, Talladega Nights, Peter Sellers, Borat, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emmy Nominations, Formula One, Kazakhstan, David Beckham, Bruno, Nikki Finke, Patricia Duff, Da Ali G Show, Home News
William Bradley

Why the big fade? It's actually not much of a mystery. Once you see the movie, the only mystery is why it wasn't predicted in the first place.

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North Korea's Taedonggang Beer Launches First Ever Beer Commercial On State TV (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea Beer, Taedonggang Beer, Bbc, Foreign Affairs, Bbc News, Kim Jong Il, North Korean Beer, North Korea, Advocacy, Kim Jong-Il, Taedonggang, World News

In a tacit gesture towards capitalism, North Korea has released its first ever beer commercial on state television for the locally-brewed Taedonggang ...

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BBC And British Government In Falling Out Over Public Funding

New York Times | ERIC PFANNER | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

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The BBC and Britain's Labour government, which has a history of support for the "Beeb," have fallen out over a government plan to share some of the br...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Downing Street Memo, For Laughs: Armando Iannucci on In the Loop

Dan Persons | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Armando Iannucci, Iraq War Films, Steve Coogan, Bbc, Films, United Nations, Anna Chlumsky, Washington DC, Anti-War Films, United States, New York, Movies, Iraq War, The Thick of It, Television Adaptation, Great Britain, Satire, James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Iraq, Comedy, Mimi Kennedy, The Downing Street Memo, Exclusive, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In a new political comedy based on an award-winning BBC sitcom, Gandolfini plays a Pentagon General whose instincts for survival are maybe too finely honed. It's political vitriol in the grand, British tradition.

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Who Delivers the News?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cnn, Bbc, The Chicago Tribune, Ieds, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Media, Mraps, The Los Angeles Times, Iraq, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.

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Fly Annoys Kathleen Sebelius During BBC Interview (VIDEO)

Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Sebelius Fly Interview, Sebelius Fly Video, Video, Bbc, Kathleen Sebelius, Sebelius Video, Sebelius Fly Bbc, Sebelius Bbc Video, Media News

Kathleen Sebelius' task of discussing health care reform with a BBC News anchor was made difficult by a pesky fly that kept buzzing in front of her fa...

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Arianna Discusses How Iranian Election Is Affecting Journalism On BBC's "Newsnight" (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

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Huff TV

From the BBC News program "Newsnight": Professional journalists in Iran have been restricted, and some thrown out of the country. In their place amate...

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Dear Media: Please Stop Reporting About Science

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nasa, Bad Journalism, Science Journalism, The Rachel Maddow Show, Bbc, Moon, Science, Lunar, Media News
Jacob Dickerman

There's nothing special about the moon. If it didn't exist, life on this planet would be largely the same,

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Media Literacy 101: Cloak-and-Dagger News

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abc, Islam, Bbc, Voa, Twitter, Technology, Iran, Mcclatchy, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Tiananmen Square, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Channel 4, Youtube, Cnn, Youtube Diplomacy, New York Times, Washington Post, Vietnam, Censor, Terrorism, World News
Susan Moeller

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

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Bonfire of The Vanities: The Arrogance of British Politics

Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Sub-Prime, House of Commons, Congress, Britain, Parliament, Bbc, Member of Parliament, Labour Party, David Cameron, Democracy, Tony Blair, Telegraph, Recession, England, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, Conservatives, Madoff, Mp, Parliamentary Expenses, Republicans, World News
Cedric Perrier

Politicians have long been fodder for the rabble-rousing editor of any tabloid, but when exactly did we stop respecting or appreciating those we elect to represent us in the legislative process?

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BBC: Iran Trying To Block Election Coverage

Guardian | Oliver Luft | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Iran Election, Iran, Bbc, BBC Iran, Iran Election Coverage, Media News

Peter Horrocks, director of the BBC World Service, has accused the Iranian authorities of attempting to block broadcast of the corporation's Persian c...

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Journalists Under Fire (And Who's Helping)

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Brayne, Journalists, The Nation, Dart Center, Bbc, New Radicals, Eyal Press, George Tiller, Careers, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Julia Moulden, Journalism, Living News
Julia Moulden

Did you read Nicholas D. Kristof's "Bullets Over Beijing," his account of being in Tiananmen Square on that fateful night twenty years ago? Uniformed...

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Obama On Middle East Trip: US Must Lead By Example, Be "Honest" With Israel

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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In an interview with the BBC's Justin Webb, President Obama discussed his upcoming trip to the Middle East, which will include a much-anticipated spee...

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Memo to the Today Show: Don't Make Me Defect to Good Morning America

Val Brown | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Reality Television, Abc, Billy Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Matt Lauer, Robin Roberts, Bbc, Television Ratings, Npr, Nbc, Lost at Sea, Cbs, Farah Fawcett, Meredith Viera, Cnn, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Today Show, Shark Attack, Divers, New York Times, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Gma, Online News, Octomom, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Media News
Val Brown

The Today Show has been reporting on dizzingly dull tales of personal calamity and reality show losers that must be embarrassing for their anchors with serious news chops.

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Our TV Sleuths Need to Take a Page from British Mysteries

Holly Robinson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Earl, Alexx Woods, Bbc, Monk, Grace Hanadarko, Pbs, CSI Miami, Adam Dalgliesh, Miss Marple, John Thaw, Lord Peter Wimsey, Jane Tenneson, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Henning Mankell, Bones, Saving Grace, David Caruso, Kenneth Branagh, Holly Hunter, Brenda Johnson, Khandi Alexander, Horatio Caine, Masterpiece Mystery!, Wallander, Psych, Crime, Entertainment News
Holly Robinson

In the US we create unidimensional detectives because we're focused on one-upping each other on plot devices that show the weirdest ways to die or the coolest tricks in the lab.

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Bono Pens Tribute Poem To Elvis Airing On BBC

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bono, Bbc, Elvis Presley, Entertainment News

LONDON — The poetry doesn't rise to a Shakespearean level, but the sentiments in Bono's tribute to Elvis Presley seem heartfelt. In an unusual ...

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Justin Rowlatt, "Ethical Man," Studies Climate Conscience In America

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Justin Rowlatt, Ethical Man, Bbc, Climate Change, Environment, Pollution, Carbon Footprint, Green News

NEW YORK — Pouring buckets of chocolate bars _ 855 in all _ on a stage seems an odd way to make a point about global warming. But Justin Rowlatt...

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Rima Maktabi: Al Arabiya's Stunning, Substantive, War-Tried Anchor

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Samir Kassir, Jordan, Dubai, Al Thamina KSA, An-Nahar, Bbc, Palestine, Future TV, Al Arabyia, Fox, U.S., Iraq, Lebanon, Rima Maktabi, Cnn, July 2006 War, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Gebran Tueni, Algeria, Skynews, Youtube, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Fearless, dedicated, yet emotional about conflicts ripping into her country, Rima Maktabi knows when to suppress tears and get on with her job as a professional journalist.

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The State of Play of "State of Play"

William Bradley | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Morrissey, Bbc, Michael Mann, Alan J. Pakula, John Simm, Robert Redford, Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Sydney Pollack, Kevin Macdonald, Paul Newman, State of Play, Journalism, Sally Field, Al Pacino, Blackwater, State of Play Miniseries, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Warren Beatty, 24, Blogging, Life on Mars, Body of Lies, L.A. Confidential, The Insider, All the President's Men, Lowell Bergman, The Parallax View, Jeffrey Wigand, Absence of Malice, Dustin Hoffman, Doctor Who, Entertainment News
William Bradley

State of Play is a political thriller wrapped inside a journalistic thriller that works better as the latter.

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Free Roxana Saberi

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Roxana Saberi, Iran, Tehran Revolutionary Court, Iran Journalist, Npr, Bbc, American Journalist Iran, World News
Joe Peyronnin

Government spies are everywhere and it doesn't take much to get arrested in Iran, especially if you have a dual nationality. Iranian journalists pay a high price if they step out of line.

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BBC America's Singing Competition "Any Dream Will Do" is "Idol"-Worthy

Ed Martin | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Any Dream Will Do, BBC America, American Idol, Grease, Bbc, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, Entertainment News
Ed Martin

It may be that the producers of American Idol can learn a few things by watching Any Dream Will Do.

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Long, Hard Probe Finds 'She' Behind 'That's What She Said'

Jason Notte | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Twizzlers, Bbc, Where's the Beef, Pbs, The Office, Bond Girls, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Double Entendre, AC/DC, Wikipedia, Mae West, Claudia Schiffer, Mike Meyers, That's What She Said, Said the Actress to the Bishop, Entertainment News, David Copperfield, Tia Carrere, Wayne's World, Letterman That's What She Said, James Bond, Comedy News
Jason Notte

You could credit Steve Carell, Mike Myers or Dana Carvey for giving the entire world pause when the word "hard" is used in passing conversation, but none of that really answers who "she" is.

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The Office Goes To Israel

The Guardian | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Ricky Gervais, Bbc, Bbc the Office, Foreign Affairs, The Office Israel, The Office, Israel the Office, Israel, The British Office, Nbc, Advocacy, World News

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's critically lauded comedy The Office is to be remade for an Israeli audience - the sixth foreign version of the sh...

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Obama's Latest Preacher Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uganda, TD Jakes, Human-Rights-Abuses, Bbc, Jim Wallis, Rick Warren, Donnie McClurkin, Ex-Gay, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Politics News
Wayne Besen

Will spending time in the biblical backwater influence Obama's views and lead him to sell us down the river?

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Slow Down -- Speed is So Yesterday

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Distraction, Gordon Brown, Add, Recession, Economy, Exhaustion, Cnbc, Bbc, Blackberry, Fast Company, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

If the current downturn means that we all slow down a little, that may turn out to be the smartest strategy of all. Because the economy surely can't recover until we do.

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