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Death on TV: collaboration, complicity or collusion?
The tea-cup sized trust storm enveloping Paul Watson and his documentary, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, continues to brew. He was on the Today programme, Barbara Pointon talked to BBC News. (I chipped in briefly on News 24.) Watson’s film was made at the invitation of Mrs Pointon (husband Malcolm being unable to grant or…
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A is for Alzheimers, F is for Fake
Paul Watson first brought Britain docu-soap in 1974 with a twelve part series, The Family. He also made Aussie-based titillater Sylvania Waters. His latest film, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, is an altogether more sober affair about a marriage ending as husband Malcolm dies of complications arising from Alzheimers. ITV will air it on August…
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The wisdom of Neil Postman
Mike Rosenblum has been riffing over on his blog about Neil Postman and the U.S. presidential debates. Back in the day, Postman wrote 1980s media classic Amusing Ourselves to Death, which blames telegraphy for all our modern woes. IMO, before the telegraph, information overload came in the the form of religious works (try reading the…
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Selling newspapers…
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