Posts Tagged ‘media’

mud and blood

23Oct08

Just a quick update about the Passchendaele movie showing in Canadian theatres right now.
I saw this film last friday and was neither surprised, nor disappointed. I came out from it very balanced about the film itself – but the theatre gets a bad review from me. Poor seats, both in location and comfort; and a [...]


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ghost in the machine

16Oct08

I have read an article in The Atlantic Online magazine regarding how the internet affects our coginitive habits. How has the internet changed the way we think?
The author brings out some very compelling thoughts and arguments about the impact of electronic media on our ability to reason, read and respond. There have been a number [...]


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veritas

10Jan08

A few people I know have assembled to view and study Focus on the Family’s new “course”. The Truth Project is conducted in a classroom manner, recorded for our edification. I have trained myself to be skeptical of anything main-stream (ooo, look at me being all counter-culture. sheesh) and obviously dislike this habit in [...]


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paying attention to what matters

30Dec07

Are we entertainment whores? Do we sell ourselves for the latest titillating morsel of buzz about Britney or Lindsay, or who is divorcing whom in our Hollywood Royalty? Do we pay attention to garbage “news” that grabs our attention, which is not too hard because we have trained ourselves into a kind of collective ADD?
Where [...]


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