Category: TV, internet and other media

Mr. Bates Goes to London: The Post Office scandal and the series that exposed it

11 January 2024 / 18

A simple four-part television series, Mr. Bates vs The Post Office, has prompted the head of that agency to give back her title as a CBE (Commander... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

One more just war or just one more war? The New York Times and all the military propaganda that’s fit to print.

26 December 2023 / 16

The so-called ‘Biden Neocons’ are part of the Uniparty of Democrats and Republicans who have minor quibbles but one major agreement. That is their unequivocal support for... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

Frugality and austerity trump creativity: the top 25 global TV series in 2023

15 December 2023 / 16

Dennis Broe reviews this year’s TV series from around the world. Above image: Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson’s Churchill without the statesmanship American TV series, which had... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

The TV Season of Our Discontent: Streaming and Striking in 2023

4 December 2023 / 16

Dennis Broe reports on the ups and downs of the U.S. streaming industry in 2023. Image above: SAG-AFTRA members join WGA members on the picket lines outside of... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

Livestreaming Genocide: With Ads, or Genocide Plus With No Ads

10 November 2023 / 17

This summer, writers and actors were marching on picket lines trying to save their jobs and secure at least a working wage in ever more expensive Los... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

The media and Gaza: ‘A textbook case of genocide’

8 November 2023 / 17

An authentic democracy cannot be psychopathic because most people are not psychopaths. Most people would not vote to kill, wound and displace hundreds of thousands of innocent... Continue reading

David Edwards

TV, internet and other media

Public service broadcasting vs. competitive capitalist profit-making: the crisis at RTÉ

27 July 2023 / 14

The current implosion at RTÉ is not merely a short-term issue of corporate governance and public accountability. Its provenance goes a long way back in the history... Continue reading

Rod Stoneman

TV, internet and other media

Challenging the Corporate Lords of Film and TV

25 July 2023 / 11

Hollywood writers and actors are on strike, the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. It’s thrown the industry into... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

And Just Like That…

25 July 2023 / 12

Business ontology was described by Mark Fisher: “Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that... Continue reading

Alan McGuire

TV, internet and other media

How corporate media downplays climate destruction: Part One

20 June 2023 / 11

Dennis Broe, in the first of to articles, describes how corporate media in all its forms downplays climate destruction. Above: New York skyline, with soot Fredric Jameson’s famous... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

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