Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Epic Rap Battles of History #12 – Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a harsh, gritty look at the world of Mario Kart in real life. Red shells mean business. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Holiday reading/viewing
Anybody else got plans to lower the height of their reading pile over the next few weeks? If so, what are you going to be reading? And what about the telly box? or DVDs?
2011 IF Awards (Sydney) dominated by Red Dog
Hot off the press release, but I’m not apologising for highlighting local film achievements: congratulations to all the winners, especially to Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton (who are a weekly staple in our house) for their Living Legend award.
A movie review: The Whistleblower
The war in Bosnia has been the focus of what seems to me a surprisingly large number of good films, from the farce of No Man’s Land to the drama of Welcome to Sarajevo. However, rather than the war itself, [...]
At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint
The AGE must have thought At Home With Julia was a doco, because they had an item about it in the News section today. “Slight it certainly was, but not fundamentally unkind – to the Prime Minister at least.” Er, [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Christopher Walken’s l33t skillz in song and dance. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by this Job Review for Mary Poppins. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Brendan O’Neill’s revealing moment #Qanda #Notw
In his appearance on Q&A last night, editor of Spiked and libertarian gadfly Brendan O’Neill said more than he ought to have. O’Neill is apparently an alumnus of some Trotskyist group or other, and like other leftie turned righties (or [...]
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