Category Archives: television

Today’s “Today’s WORD on Journalism:” “Most Trusted Source”

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Today’s WORD on Journalism
Afflicting the comfortable since 1995
Friday, January 23, 2015

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Critical Thinkers

Calvin

“Online search engines have overtaken traditional media as the most trusted source for general news and information, according to a global survey of 27,000 people by Edelman, a public relations firm. . . .

“And the striking thing is that Google does not actually report on anything, but instead serves up links to stories on a mix of other sites that users, apparently, trust less than the aggregator itself.” —John McDuling, “Google is now a more trusted source of news than the websites it aggregates,” Quartz.com, Jan. 20, 2015

• Editorial Comment: I saw this in the Times, but didn’t believe it until I saw it on HuffPo.

PeezPix by Ted Pease

It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 3

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Atom

Atom on one side (played by a former Superman)

and Ant-Man on the other.

 Daredevil

Daredevil on TV, from the beginning, and Luke Cage named.

“Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” keeping folks guessing (as is my other Tuesday night favorite, “The Flash”), while the “new” “Fantastic Four,”…..well, I don’t know what to say about that yet.

An upcoming “Lego Batman” movie.

Even a radio show starring Cap on “Agent Carter.”

Superhero crossovers now becoming a new television tradition, while “Gotham” settles into praise and criticism.

Avengers Ultron

Then there’s the new “Avengers: Age of Ultron” trailer, below:

And here’s the original trailer, but in Legos! LOL!

(Will Dr. Stephen Strange make a cameo in “Ultron?”)

(More on “Flash.”)

Female superheroes are finally about to get their film due. (And one on the Web. And women creators, in film.)

And finally, are comics (continuing the) re-writing (of) themselves to match the movies? Has it really gotten to this point?

TOO MUCH TO FOLLOW!

With All The Talk About “Selma”…………

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…..I thought it was time to get out of mothballs the 1978 “King” miniseries, produced and aired on NBC (as a counter to ABC’s “Roots” the year before?).

Very accurate in some aspects concerning King’s life, but LOTS of composite Movement characters, substituting for Jesse Jackson, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, C.T. Vivian, Selma, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark and others. (Ramsey Clark, Julian Bond and Tony Bennett [!] portray themselves. Maynard Jackson, the mayor of Atlanta, played a subsitute of Whitney Young, and Yolanda King played Rosa Parks.) And Malcolm X makes a cameo in 1966 (!) as a substitute for Stokely Carmichael. Between this and “Selma,” filmmakers seem to have a problem with Stokely (Kwame)–so much so that even Malcolm X is preferable.

“Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol”

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Easily one of the best Christmas animated specials.

As a kid, I always thought this was a “special episode” of a Saturday morning cartoon I liked to watch in its syndicated, early morning 1970 reruns: “The Famous Adventures of Mister Magoo.”

So I was surprised to know that the opposite was true: that it was the popularity of the Christmas special that spawned this show!

My Favorite Documentary, “James Baldwin: The Price Of The Ticket,” Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

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I never thought the intellectual and professional content of my life could be symbolically defined by the content of one feature film documentary, but the one celebrated above (and promoted directly below) comes dangerously close. It is the documentary that made me me.

(I’m glad that the moderator and guest remembered Black documentary legend William Miles, now an Ancestor, who was a co-producer of this masterwork.)

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FEBRUARY 7th UPDATE: Happy to discover this. I love it when Baraka said that Baldwin “threatened Western Civilization with divinity,” and when he quoted from “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.” I was also happy to see that the effort Herb mentioned to get a New York City street named after James Baldwin was ultimately successful.