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First Look of the Day: First official still from Edgar Wright’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, released by the man himself.
The film, which stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Allison Pill and Mark Webber, and Anna Kendrick, is due in theaters sometime next year.
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god dammit, michael cera doesn’t get to wear that shirt.](http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kupqj7jy2k1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
First Look of the Day: First official still from Edgar Wright’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim, released by the man himself.
The film, which stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Allison Pill and Mark Webber, and Anna Kendrick, is due in theaters sometime next year.
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god dammit, michael cera doesn’t get to wear that shirt.
it’s come to my attn that my last reblog might have come off aggressive or snarky, which was not even a little bit intended. not once ounce. my badddd
No snark taken, dude. :) Good vibes.
I share your desire for a fair, even handed, capital P Press that banishes the scoundrels on both sides. It’ll be a hard feat to accomplish, since the history of American journalism, from William Randolph Hearst to Joseph Pulitzer to Rupert Murdoch, has been dominated by the lack of this even-handedness. I suppose I’m just sometimes discouraged by the fact that FoxNews and CNN seem to roll in money while NPR has to do month pledge drives to stay afloat. Maybe the answer lies in national support, as exists with BBC, I don’t know.
I’m also influenced by my firm belief that most liberal views are right and most conservative views are wrong, and it’s tough to see so much of the country go the other way. Sometimes I just wish for a leftist force in the press that’s as virulent as the force of the right, even if it’s not totally responsible. Fair and balanced is the goal, but it feels sometimes like my side is getting run over.
All this bullshit aside, I think it’s cool that we on Tumblr were able to spend a Tuesday afternoon discussing the future of journalism. It shows that not all of us are so easily placated or led around by the ear. You guys are great!
a wise man once said that reality has a liberal bias, and i think that’s just about the smartest damn thing i’ve ever heard. sometimes i get mistaken for a cynic or a pessimist, but i do like to believe that fucking people up with truth can be just as infectious as reckless fabrication.
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it’s come to my attn that my last reblog might have come off aggressive or snarky, which was not even a little bit intended. not once ounce. my badddd
support the ACLU
[The] ACLU this year, largely without warning, lost its single largest source of funding as a result of the financial crisis. The loss of that individual donor, who had been contributing $20 million per year, was a major blow to the organization, “punching a 25 percent hole in its annual operating budget and forcing cutbacks in operations.” That loss came on top of substantial fundraising losses last year from the financial crisis and the Madoff fraud, which had already forced the group to lay-off numerous employees and cut back substantially on its activities.
It is not hyperbole to say that, over the past decade, there has been no organization more important to the United States, the Constitution, and basic political liberties than the ACLU. From the start of the Bush/Cheney assault on core civil liberties — when most organizations and individuals were petrified of opposing any efforts justified by “terrorism” — the ACLU was one of a small handful of groups which defied that climate of fear by vigorously and fearlessly opposing those erosions. Along with that same small handful of civil liberties and human rights groups, the ACLU since then has been at the center of virtually every fight against government incursions into basic rights. They defend core Constitutional principles regardless of party or ideology, and they continue to lead this fight even now that Bush is gone from office. As I detailed here, their crucial efforts extend far beyond litigating and lobbying, as they have often been forced to fulfill the investigative and oversight role intended for — but abdicated by — our national media and Congress. Indeed, most of what we know about the Bush torture regime and other lawbreaking schemes is the result not of newspapers or Congressional investigations but the ACLU. (greenwald)
i personally donate $20 to the ACLU every month, the only regular charitable donation i carve out of my non-profit salary. i do it because i believe the constitution has power only if it’s monitored and enforced and because the ACLU is without a doubt the most powerful and influential organization doing that work.
you can donate online - one time or monthly donations, in your name or someone else’s - at the ACLU website.
effing word.
I definitely agree that the media has some responsibility for informing the populace that they’re not living up to. However, I think it’s important to remember that there are a lot of media sources out there who do have balls and the gumption to lead people around by the ears, they’re just doing it for evil and their own personal gain.
Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly, James Dobson, Ann Coulter, and Sarah Palin (just to name a few) have made hugely lucrative careers out of playing on people’s hatred, fear, and willful ignorance. And a few of them are able to make measurable difference on citizen action. We know now that many of the “tea party” protests were orchestrated more or less directly by the cronies at Fox News. Whether it’s for profit or politics, the effects are just as damaging. We’re about to lose the fight for universal healthcare again largely because of the groundswell of popular support these fears instigated.
Other outlets like CNN, CNBC, and the like have a real chance to do some serious reporting that could change the course of the nation, but usually decide to (in CNN’s case) inexplicably devote a large amount of attention to fluff pieces and the blogsphere and (in CNBC’s case) willfully ignore their duty to investigate and uncover stories in favor of smiling to the camera, telling everyone the market will be fine, interviewing CEO’s on why their business are just “so darn profitable,” and producing scathing pieces on corruption when after it’s too late to do anything about it. Pathetic.
Vladimir Lenin said: “The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.” I think it can be all those things, but only one side is doing that so far.
thinking of the press as a collective, i guess i’d just like to be fed a steady diet of agenda-less news. profound, i know. but think about the potential aggregate effect of a capital P Press that uniformly looks and feels like npr, instead of either fluff CNN or fearmongering from anyplace on the political spectrum. i think a collective effort could have ostracizing impacts on cnn, fox news, and msnbc for that matter. holy shit fantastic! also, i am a bbc fan, but maybe that has more to do with their being removed from and effectively unaccountable to american interests.
