Jack Thompson and I go at it on whether violence in videogames causes violence in the real world. Thomspon ignores evidence - such as decreasing crime rates in the last decade - that videogames have no such ill-effect, and mis-cites pyschological studies.
I debate the former Governor of Minnesota - Jesse Ventura - on the pros and cons of media coverage of sensationalist events such as trials and murders. From Jesse's short-lived "Jesse Ventura's America". I flew out to St. Paul for this taping, and very much enjoyed it. This is Part 1 of a 2-part video clip.
I debate the former Governor of Minnesota - Jesse Ventura - on the pros and cons of media coverage of sensationalist events such as trials and murders. From Jesse's short-lived "Jesse Ventura's America". I flew out to St. Paul for this taping, and very much enjoyed it. This is Part 2 of a 2-part video clip.
I deliver a lecture to my "Intro to Communication & Media Studies" class at Fordham University about the media misreporting of Ron Paul ... Part 1: History of polling ... ABC's misreporting of Ron Paul in May 2007
my 6-minute tour of the history of science fiction, from Mary Shelley through H. G. Wells all the way to the 21st century... I talk about George Melies, Hugo Gernsback, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, and everything in between in this 2002 interview.
Pat Buchanan and Bob Kohn say the New York Times published information fed to it by the CIA in the 2004 Presidential election campaign - information intended by the CIA, and hoped by the New York Times, to hurt George Bush and make him lose the election. I say the New York Times was only doing its job - publishing information it believed to be reliable, especially if provided via CIA leaks.
I deliver a lecture to my "Intro to Communication & Media Studies" class at Fordham University about the media misreporting of Ron Paul ... Part 2: ABC continues misreporting Ron Paul (early August 2007)
Brent Bozell, then President of the Parents Television Council, says he welcomes FCC fines for alleged "indecent" broadcasting, because such fines help create "a culture of responsibility". I say the fines violate the First Amendment, and are creating a culture of fear - in which, for example, many TV stations refused to air "Saving Private Ryan" on Veteran's Day 2004.
I'm usually a critic of The New York Times and its arrogance ("all the news that's fit to print"? - hardly - more like "all the news that we deem fit to print" ... but in this clip I take issue with Bill O'Reilly's claim that the New York Times, and the LA Times, as well, are out to get him...
I deliver a lecture to my "Intro to Communication & Media Studies" class at Fordham University about the media misreporting of Ron Paul ... Part 3: Mark Levin urges disinformation against Ron Paul on ABC radio ... Kucinich gets cropped ... the First Amendment
see Paul Levinson: Evolution of Science Fiction, for this clip with better sound - I talk about Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, George Melies, Hugo Gernsback, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, and everything in between in this 2002 interview.
I deliver a lecture to my "Intro to Communication & Media Studies" class at Fordham University about the media misreporting of Ron Paul ... Part 4: Hannity & Colmes misreport Ron Paul on Fox News ... reasons behind all of this
I deliver a lecture to my "Intro to Communication & Media Studies" class at Fordham University about the media misreporting of Ron Paul ... Part 5: I answer student questions
Pat Robertson said that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for not following the Old Testament, and giving away some of the land of Israel. John Kasich, Janet Folger, and I discuss the morality of literally applying the Old Testament to a Prime Minister on his deathbed. I argue that Robertson's statements were inappropriate and graceless.
I discuss the pop-cultural significance of Alan Greenspan with Ray Suarez, on the eve of Greenspan's departure as head of the Federal Reserve Board in January 2006. I say Greenspan ruled like a philosopher-king, spoke in aphorisms like Marshall McLuhan, and understood that power can be the ultimate aphrodisiac.
a brief comment by me - with a nod to Thorstein Veblen and his theory of "conspicuous consumption" - on new cell phones as fashion statements, that sell for as much as a million dollars
Maureen Dowd called Judith Miller a "woman of mass destruction" at the New York Times. Rather than supporting its reporter - who spent time in jail rather than reveal her sources - the New York Times in the end pushed her out of her job. I say this is no-class behavior by the New York Times.
New York City, 2042 ... Sierra Waters reads a previously unknown Socratic dialogue ... it takes place in the prison of Socrates, on the night before his death,, right after Crito's visit ... Socrates receives another visitor, Andros, who makes him an offer... for more about The Plot to Save Socrates, see http://theplottosave socrates.com
Excerpts from a secret interview of Paul Levinson by Philadelphia Fantastic's Oz Fontecchio about The Genesis Virus project - "time travel as you've never seen it before on television" - by Paul Levinson, J. Charles Sterin, and Bettina Vozick
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