FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, November 26, 2008, San Francisco – Voice of America journalists and other employees who broadcast American news to the world are thankful for the pre-Thanksgiving Day news that Ted Kaufman (Edward E. Kaufman) was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat from Delaware vacated by his former boss, Vice President elect Joe Biden. [...]

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According to the author’s website, this is the first of a trilogy of accounts, covering the adventures of a fifty-something couple, both fairly-well paid professionals but unenthusiastic about that last long stretch of slogging through the workday before retirement. In addition to that, the weather in England’s midlands where they lived and worked seemed to [...]

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For days nay weeks I have been thinking to write something on this. However my preoccupation with my television job has kept me from it. However not any more. Tonight when I logged on to the CNN site I saw CNN IBN’s breaking news pointer on Mumbai terror attacks. Horrified I am still watching sufferings [...]

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This past weekend, I drove my nineteen year old son, Mario, and his friend from Durham, NC to Glenside, PA. to see Brian Wilson in concert at the Keswick Theater.  My son has had a passion for the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson for years, the kind of passion I felt at his age for [...]

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Phyllis is at the club making sure all the preparations for the family Thanksgiving is done like she planned. Meanwhile Victoria and Nick are at the jail visiting with Victor. Victor tells them they shouldn’t have come, they should have stayed with their families. Victoria says they are meeting with them later. He tells them [...]

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More pages of documents on the missing child, Caylee Anthony have been released to the public. Caylee’s mother Casey Anthony is in jail held on charges of first degree murder in the Orange County Jail. These documents reveal that there were searches made on March 17 on Casey’s computer on “how to make chloroform,” “neck [...]

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The Victorian government has made an apology to victims of asbestos exposure, and the move has been welcomed by a Gippsland support group that deals with sufferers of asbestos related diseases. Since the 1920s workers at power stations in the Latrobe Valley that were run by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) were exposed to asbestos. [...]

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Wanted shoots its way to DVD shelves Tuesday December 2nd and I am giving a copy to one lucky BNN reader! And congrats to our past BNN DVD contest winners! You could be next! (See below) Number of discs: 1 Rating: R Studio: Universal Studios DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008 Run Time: 110 minutes ENTER [...]

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Prince Caspian comes to DVD Tuesday December 2nd and I am giving a copy to one lucky BNN reader! And congrats to our past BNN DVD contest winners! You could be next! (See below) The second installment of the Chronicles of Narnia needed to be bigger than the first one. It needed to stand its ground against the [...]

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At least 3,000 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe during the past two weeks, reports Basildon Peta in “The Independent” today, November 26, quoting a senior official in Zimbabwe’s Health Ministry.  This is more than ten times the number widely quoted until now.  Meanwhile, Mugabe’s government have denied that they have any problems with [...]

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Hi all… As huge fans of Wallace and Gromit, we were honored to get a chance to take a look at Shaun the Sheep – Off the Baa! when it was announced. Shaun the Sheep first came on the scene in Wallace & Gromit’s short film, A Close Shave in 1995. He caused no end [...]

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I’m not nominating this guy “Father of the Year” but it does seem quite possible that he was victimized by the child support system. In general, the system deals very poorly (and unfairly) with men who suffer large drops in their income, and it appears that rapper MC Breed was such a case. From Flint [...]

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I have to admit I had terribly low expectations for this move, just as I did when my then-sixteen year old daughter dragged me to see “George of the Jungle” yea these many years ago. I sat down to watch, grimly expecting my intelligence, taste and sense of humor to be insulted for two hours… [...]

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“It was a good gig… quick, dirty and fun.” So say co-composers Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders on their work scoring director John Moore’s dark actioner Max Payne. The film itself is a bleak, emotionally sterile adaptation of a shoot-em-up video game, starring Mark Wahlberg as the titular Max. Backing up the film’s dreary landscapes is Beltrami [...]

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With as many impressively high-profile (or at least high-brow) films as Jon Brion has to his name, it’s almost more impressive that he’s scored so few films overall. It seems that Brion, the man who composed music for I Heart Huckabees, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, tends towards movies that are [...]

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 YouTube is a phenomenon and truly one of the most innovative and enjoyable things on the Net. The commercial potential of the site is huge – which is no doubt why Google paid $1.65bn for it. But the very nature of the site is, or should be, that it is user and content driven. Without [...]

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