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Future is not what it used to be
AS A baby boomer, I must say I'm terribly disappointed with modern science and technology. I mean, where's my robot? Apparently Leonardo da Vinci invented the first robot in 1495.
Spare me harsh realities, slay that dragon and let the movies cast a spell
Clem Bastow When economic times are tough, fantasy and cinema come to the rescue, again.
Biggest losers from TV obesity cures are gullible viewers
Nina Funnell and Dannielle Miller If Christmas is the time to be merry and binge, then the New Year is the time to focus and fast. January is when the highly lucrative weight-loss industry ramps up its seductive promise that if we...
Trolls of TV and radio would not last a day under print rules
Richard Ackland Free speech, freedom of the press, the right to say what you like - all are getting a huge run at the moment.
TV reporters buy an extra vowel - and I don't like it
Heckler WHAT'S so wonderful about the letter I? It has become like a weed lately. Ten years ago, the word bank, as pronounced by television reporters (the arbiters of good taste in our spoken language)...
Is this the end of quality journalism on commercial TV?
Michael Idato Commercial television is the most unforgiving of beasts. The best ideas, the most innovation, the greatest vision — they all get culled in a brutal farce known as "the ratings".
Time for a few home truths about bad TV
Bruce Guthrie Denigrating the flag and the office of the Prime Minister isn't funny.
The Slap still shocks in TV translation
Jason Steger "He saw his cousin's raised arm, it spliced the air, and then he saw the open palm descend and strike the boy. The slap seemed to echo. It cracked the twilight.
From the ridiculous to the mundane, reality TV bites
Charles Purcell The world of reality TV continues apace. The Block, The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover, Survivor, The X-Factor, Keeping up with the Kardashians, MasterChef . . . the list goes on and on.
Contrived to shock, let's hope The Slap is more than TV schlock
Julie Szego Have you heard about the ''A-list'', ''red carpet'' event at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival? It has been described as a slick marketing coup to create a buzz around a new ABC...
Wildlife reality TV: it's only natural
Heckler I USED to love wildlife documentaries - all those wonderful creatures going about their lives in their natural surroundings with hardly a glance at us nosy humans.
TV's trivialisation of the serious opens a can of worms
Michael Scammel Turning big issues into frothy entertainment is no laughing matter.
Forget tribunals. It's trial by TV for refugees
Kirsty Needham SBS has put the boiling hot refugee issue to a more modern democratic test - the instant colosseum of reality TV.
Basically, TV news is absolutely grating
Heckler ONE of the first things taught in any journalism course is that adverbs are the enemy of good writing.
Pay TV joins relentless march of media consolidation
Tim Dick This week, I broke up with Foxtel. When the courier comes on Monday, the iQ box will go back to where it came from, and the second episode of Angry Boys will go with it unwatched.
My brief career in TV land
Danny Katz A budding, pencil-less television writer fails the screen test.
How Oprah's search for a new TV star became an online scandal
Nina Funnell Popular recent searches on Google include "why does Oprah hate people with cerebral palsy?" and "why does Oprah hate the disabled?".
TV food fetish could be right on the glutton
Mic Looby Programmers clarify stock as they realise too much food is never enough.
The wild world of TV
Charles Waterstreet David Leckie lives and breathes television. At his heaviest he looked like a bank of televisions, one stacked on the top of the other - as they once were arranged in showrooms before flat screens.
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