Brown Motion

For every unappealing event or person one must look for the sliver of silver.  Or so the saying goes.  It is the same with American politics in its present state and the presence of an unusual superego (the ego part is a must to be in any limelight for anyone) in the form of the Donald. With the airwaves awash in negativity about all that he says and does it is also IMHO exposing a chink in the media's armor.  That of unbiased reporting.  Some journalists have gone as far as to say that this time is an exception. But in fact that is not so.  I have been observing the American media more closely than any other given I have the desire to be "informed" and it provides one point of view that shapes my own opinion.  It seems that depending on the vested interests of the broadcaster the news or talk shows tends to conform to a predetermined ideology or designed to merely confuse the viewer or reader to the point of feeling irrelevant. Take the word media f...

An American television comic made a directorial debut with this film.  His name is Jon Stewart.  While his comedy is largely political satire that I do not enjoy as much as mundane observations about the species made famous by Seinfeld, he is a razor wit and liked by many TV viewing audiences.  I might just have to watch some of his archived product esp since he has announced retirement from his show later this year. With this film Stewart has adapted a story of an Iranian Canadian journalist,  Maziar Bahari working for Newsweek magazine and covering the 2009 (re) election of Ahmadinejad as the country's ruler. Maziar is in Iran for the story and one morning gets picked up from his home by Iran Revolutionary Guard and jailed and later told he is a spy for the Western governments of Britain and USA.  Iran concludes this based on a silly interview Maziar did for a comic (while in Iran) pretending to be a Western spy. While the movie is a narra...