[smygo] Terrorvision
 
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:23:14 -0500 (CDT)



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Most readers probably hate the mass media, especially the more
mainstream media. They would, I expect, prefer to make Spectaclasts of
themselves than Spectators (for the ignorant, see the Situationist and
Situationist-influenced material at the Bureau of Public Secrets:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/ .)

But, as we do need our own sources of information and entertainment --
no one can spend their whole day destroying society and subverting
unsuspecting strangers -- it seems like it might be a good idea to list
some examples of TV that might be of interest to anarchists,
anti-authoritarians, libertarians, progressives, etc.

LINK TV has a lot of programming of interest. They show many
documentaries from around the world of especial interest to progressives
(_Manufacturing Consent_, the documentary on Noam Chomsky, is a
favorite), and the daily news and interview show _Democracy Now!_.

C-Span and C-Span 2 have a lot of political programming. In particular,
C-Span 2 devotes the weekend to BookTV, which has a lot of mainstream
writers and even outright wingnuts, but does also sometimes feature
people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.

The Comedy Channel has _The Daily Show_ and _The Colbert Report_. These
are about as informative as mainstream news shows (wow!), and often very
entertaining.

Some of the short videos on Current TV might be of interest. What you'll
happen to catch is a total crapshoot, though.

On-line video sources like YouTube include some material of interest. 
Running searches on the sites should find these.

Cable access channels may have shows by anarchists and libertarians. (I
have satellite instead of cable, so I can't say what might be on.)

TCM has a couple movies each Friday night on its TCM Underground. These
aren't always really that underground, but many of the movies provide
some good non-mainstream entertainment.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll be glad to take 
suggestions to expand the list.

-- 
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
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