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Here is how the founder and chairman of the Discovery Channel, John Hendricks, crystallizes its mission statement: To satisfy curiosity and make a difference in people’s lives by providing the highest quality content, services and products that entertain, engage and enlighten. (corporate.discovery.com) Of course, all fact-based productions, for TV and film, would do well to… Read more.
The price of fuel has fallen over 50 percent in the last six months. Yet, far from lowering fares during this period, airlines hiked them. Why? Mergers that amount to monopolies, enabling fares that reek of price fixing. Airline executives clearly have nothing on used car salesmen…. Friggin’ Gougers! Read more.
I don’t know why the media always reward these psychopaths by giving them the fame they covet; that is, by plastering their pathetic mugs all over television and reporting pop psychology about why and how they did their dastardly deeds. You’d think … we would have figured out by now that the best way to discourage… Read more.
A shooting at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris has left at least 12 people dead [10 journalists and two policemen]… Witnesses report that two masked men entered the building with guns and open fired on staff of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper that had [drawn repeated threats for its caricatures of the… Read more.
[I]f she takes this path to (presumed) racial absolution, Black folks will think Pascal is not only a closeted racist but a shameless cynic to boot. After all, we know all too well that this venal reverend would grant racial indulgences to the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, in a minute, for an extortionate fee, er, contribution (to a slush fund… Read more.
I am a big fan of historical films like Spartacus, Schindler’s List, Invictus, and Mississippi Burning. And I fully appreciate the artistic license screenwriters and directors take in each case for dramatic effect. But I’ve always been concerned about artists taking so much license that what appears on screen bears little resemblance to historical facts.… Read more.
Adrian Vladimir Kisovec was one of the many unsung heroes from World War II who Tom Brokaw of NBC News honored with his bestselling book, The Greatest Generation. True to form, Adrian’s modesty was such that it took over 10 years of my constant prodding to get him to share details of his wartime adventures… Read more.
