Canada Rejects Challenge to Law Requiring Newscasts to Be True

Following a public outcry, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has rejected a proposal – said to have been pushed, behind the scenes, by the office of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper – to change the provision in Canadian law forbidding license holders from broadcasting “any false or misleading news.”

It’s “Balletploitation” – Another Black Swan Smackdown

Former Balanchine star Toni Bentley: “[It] isn’t a film about real ballerinas at all, no more than Jurassic Park is a film about real scientists (or real dinosaurs for that matter) – it merely exploits the locale, the props, and the outerwear. … Aronofsky has created a movie celebrating the failure of a ballerina, and by implication her entire art – disguised, insidiously, as a film about sacrifice and success.”

Does The Internet Dilute The Power Of The Press?

“Now, the vast interconnection of humanity we call the internet promises to divorce the press and power forever, by dissolving the press. Now, every mobile phone, every document scanner, every camera, every laptop, are part of an immense network in which everything we see, we think, we know, can be transmitted to everyone else, everywhere, immediately. Democracy in its deepest sense follows.”