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  • Discovery launches first "ecotainment" channel (Planet Green)

    06/05/2008 11:09:01 AM PDT · by rightinthemiddle · 49 replies · 180+ views
    Rooters ^ | 6-3-08 | Kimberly Nordyke
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Could "green" become a new watchword in TV programming? While the media companies have long been touting everything they're doing behind the scenes to become more environment-friendly, the message increasingly is seeping into their programming. On Wednesday, Discovery Communications launches the first 24/7 eco-friendly network, Planet Green, which will take over the space occupied by Discovery Home Channel. That follows NBC Universal's second companywide "Green Week" in April -- featuring 100 hours of green-themed content airing across 42 NBC Universal brands and 28 Web sites -- with two more already planned for November and April....
  • Lessons of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth (corrosive media culture alert)

    05/16/2003 11:43:14 AM PDT · by atomic conspiracy · 135 replies · 1,167+ views
    The Skeptical Enquirer ^ | March, 2003 | James Oberg
    Depending on the opinion polls, there's a core of Apollo moon flight disbelievers within the United States--perhaps 10 percent of the population, and up to twice as large in specific demographic groups. Overseas the results are similar, fanned by local attitudes toward the U.S. in general and technology in particular. Some religious fundamentalists--Hare Krishna cultists and some extreme Islamic mullahs, for example--declare the theological impossibility of human trips to other worlds in space. Resentment of American cultural and political dominance clearly fuels other "disbelievers," including those political groups who had been hoping for a different outcome to the Space Race--for...