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Friday, 18 June 2021 12:11

Cancel Enid Blyton! The familiar, tired tropes of GB News and anti-Woke media

Written by Stuart Cartland

Stuart Cartland on Conservative populism and anti-Woke TV: how the launch of GB News represents updated versions of familiar, tired tropes. GB News represents an updated version or equivalent to the familiar and well-worn tropes of anti-political correctness of previous years. The political right dominates British media outlets and the…

Monday, 21 December 2020 21:15

Marginalised and forgotten: indigenous and working-class people in TV series

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews TV series that focus on indigenous and working-class themes, including Mystery Road, Don’t Forget The Driver, The Connors, and Superstore. Image above: Aaron Pedersen as Jay Swan in Mystery Road Few series on television focus either on both the earth’s first inhabitants, the indigenous, now mostly quartered…

Mystery Road Don't Forget the Driver Superstore The Connors

Sunday, 16 August 2020 08:30

Green Frontier and Wild District: The Bolivarian vs. The Bolsonarian Revolution

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews Green Frontier and Wild District, two shockingly different approaches to South American struggles for political liberation. The image above is from Green Frontier Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both made by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the…

Netflix Guerra

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 04 August 2020 15:56

Broadcasting and Beyond: proposals for progressive media

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Written by Rod Stoneman

Rod Stoneman outlines proposals for developing new, more radical and progressive media You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from non- conformity – the courage to invent the future. - Thomas Sankara. Recently sketching an account of my experiences working in Channel 4…

Channel 4 Novara Media Tribune morning star Jacobin Radical Film Network

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 27 July 2020 09:59

A Strange Bird: Comcast and Universal's Peacock streaming service

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe continues his review of series TV with a sceptical look at Comcast and Universal's Peacock, the latest streaming service from the world of capitalist media conglomerates Do we need yet another television network/movie studio/cable station conglomerate turned into a streaming service whose main contribution is to put its…

Brave New World The Office

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 05 July 2020 08:51

Perry Mason and The Case of the Missing Case

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews the new HBO Perry Mason series on Sky. There are many things to like about HBO’s new version of one of the most popular book and television series of all time, Perry Mason, which is available in Britain on Sky and in France on OCS. This young…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 23 June 2020 09:37

Take away their power: climate breakdown and the corporate media

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Written by David Cromwell

David Cromwell outlines the way the media is beholden to corporate capitalism, and calls for a radical democratisation of ownership and control of the broadcast and print media In his classic science fiction novel, 'Foundation', Isaac Asimov posited a future in which 'psychohistorians' could predict outcomes based on past history…

Monday, 22 June 2020 10:10

The global drug pandemic, police supremacism and the corruption of film-makers

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe focuses on the global drug pandemic, dealt with in different ways in three new series Three new series deal variously with the drug pandemic, that byproduct of the despair that has grown in the wake of neoliberal capitalism. As opportunities shrink because of a global upward redistribution of…

Hightown Amo Homecoming Black Lives Matter Harriet

Monday, 22 June 2020 08:53

Covid-19 and the ownership and control of the media

Written by Natalie Fenton

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Natalie Fenton points to the need for less concentrated ownership and more democratic control of the media, in the wake of the Covid-ap pandemic. The media are vital purveyors of information and interrogators of power in a pandemic where a government’s decisions translate directly into lives lost or saved. In…

bbc Boris Johnson Michael Gove Cultural democracy

Tuesday, 09 June 2020 14:29

When Channel 4 was radical: a sketch of political and cultural alternatives

Written by Rod Stoneman

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Rod Stoneman looks back at the radical, risk-taking early days of Channel 4, as an example of a progressive alternative to mainstream, conservative media culture In its first decade, Channel 4 took risks and developed programming that gave voice to the marginalised – from Black radicals to Irish republicans, and…

Thursday, 04 June 2020 10:35

Are we really all in this together?

Written by Esther Leslie

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Esther Leslie questions the media messages and slogans around the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of the joint Morning Star and Culture Matters series on Covid-19 and culture A picture flashed through social media channels. A woman, in a Stars and Stripes dress, protesting at Huntington Beach, California, holds up a…

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