Mid-May 2010

[dewline]

Feel free to discuss any or all of these as your interests guide you...

1. On movies: I went to see Gunless on Monday, The Trotsky on Friday...and I had fun watching both of them. Seems like it was a good week for me to see CanCon movies overall.

Haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet, although I fully expect to enjoy it as I did the first film.

2. InsideTheCBC.com asks a simple question about bias issues, and look at all the dog-piling going on in response. Amazing, isn't it?

I'm reminded of a recent installment of Age of Persuasion, "Where the Power Resides", wherein the power of the audience was discussed at some length. In the course of this episode, a clip from a Rod Serling interview was re-aired wherein Serling spoke of his POV on that episode of Lassie wherein she gave birth to puppies. Whereupon the producers and network responsible were flooded with what apparently turned out to be a handful of people cranking out letters of complaint by the thousands levelling accusations of producing and airing obscene material. Nonetheless, despite the source, the letters had their intended impact. Sad, and precedent-enforcing impact.

3. Watched "Flesh and Stone" on Doctor Who tonight. Fun, and more than a little chilling at all the points where it was intended. Including the final act, I daresay.

4. Noticed in Flash # 2 this week that the noble habit of fictional municipalities having their own Departments of Motor Vehicles in the DC Universe is apparently continuing...and with DNA profiles included on their smart-strips as well. We can probably blame the Durlan participation in the Alliance Invasion of 1988 for that last item, but the former - the bit about municipal DMVs? - that bothers me more than a little. Seeing as we've known for some years that - for Barry Allen's hometown's example - Central City's in Missouri, what's the point of devolving DMV duties onto Central City?

Any theories?

Comments

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Makes me wonder where most of the people commenting on that CBC question get their news from, and whether or not they think it might be biased. Seems to me that any privatized news organization will have a bias, as anything they report on will be spun in favour of advertising revenue and the stockholders, which is somewhat more of a bias than the one CBC has, as it has nothing to gain from being biased.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The government of the day - no matter which party's running it - has always been somewhat annoyed by CBC's behaving as if it's not supposed to be the ruling party's version of Soviet-era Pravda. To their POV, that's always going to be "bad bias". Not entirely surprising, but the level of vitriol in play at the moment...is disturbing.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

So, if they're anti-Liberal as well as Anti-Conservative, where does the bias come in? Seems kinda equal-opportunity to me...

I'm damn sure that our beloved Ceeb would meet its demise shortly after any Conservative majority gets in. The old Reformers have despised it for years.

[evilvillan-1.livejournal.com]

I feel weird being one of only a small handful of people who haven't seen Iron Man (the first one, or the second). I *did* see Clash of the Titans and found it to be amusing.

CBC has biases. We all do, inherent or not, known or unknown to ourselves. Me, I'm personally biased against those who think they're not biased. :P

[dewline.livejournal.com]

On movies: I haven't caught the new version of Clash of the Titans, although the elder one with stop-motion animation? That I caught bits and pieces of, probably on TCM some weekend or other. I suppose they're of a piece in that they're okay for 2-hour "put your brain on hold" action thrillers.

On CBC: Whether they're biased or not, I do feel rather protective towards the organization as a whole for a blend of reasons personal, sentimental and political.

[pauliatchy.livejournal.com]

According to the Flash Secret Files that came out the week before Flash #1, "Central City is a city obsessed with speed" perhaps the state DMV moved to slowly for them, and so they replaced it with their own ;)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The fight between Central City's government and the Missouri legislature over this point sounds like something a West Wing fan would love to read in their comics...if written well.

No?