A video artist gets caught in the Australian ratings board’s rule that all works of moving images have to apply for ratings classification. But that costs real moneey, more in fact than some artists spend on making their work…
Tag: 06.23.05
Public Broadcasting’s Problematic Lobbying
Public radio stations are rallying their listeners to lobby Congress not to pass deep funding cuts to public broadcasting. But “jarring juxtaposition of news programming and self-interested promotion exemplifies the fine line that public broadcasters are walking as they mobilize to combat threats to their financing. It is always a delicate task for a news organization to cover itself. But when the organization in question is financed in part by the government, when the news centers on the prospects for that money and when a station floods its airwaves with spots urging viewers or listeners to contact their Congressional representatives, the undertaking becomes much more challenging.”
From Peasant To International Ballet Star…
If Li Cunxin was a character in a potboiler, you would scarcely credit it. There’s the sensational defection, a new dance career and life in the US brokered by a former first lady. Then a move to Australia, followed by a second flowering as a dancer, then an improbable switch from the stage to stockbroking, then life as a bestselling author.