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Literary Theory in chaos. By David Kirby | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor (January 27, 2004):

A n old joke used to ask, Where are the last bastions of Marxism? Answer: the Kremlin and the Duke University English department. But now that the Soviet Union has dissolved, the last defenders of Karl Marx's ideas may indeed reside on a pretty, Gothic-style campus in the pinewoods of North Carolina."

Jane Austen, Public Theologian. By Peter J. Leithart, First Things 139 (January 2004) 28-38:

"Austen's novels seem to be relentlessly concerned with private life, concerned with "three or four families in a country town," as she put it in one famous letter. [...] Austen's novels rarely deal openly with theological themes or issues, and even her private lettersÑthe ones that survived her sister's destructionÑseldom speak of religious subjects. She was a lifelong member of the Church of England and her father and two brothers were Anglican ministers. By all accounts she was a Christian, yet she displays a high Anglican reticence about religious experience, and a similarly Anglican disinterest in the niceties of theological debate [...]."

"Austen was not an unthinking defender of traditional social order. Not uncommonly, her heroines are upwardly mobile, particularly through the agency of matrimony. Yet she sensed the corrosive effects of individualism, and her uncanny intelligence and attention to the details of social surface enabled her to give us one of literatureÕs sharpest portraits of this emerging reality. That she also recognized the absence and failure of the Church in combating this decay makes her a public theologian to reckon with."

The 76th Academy Awards Nominees.

Musicians Seek Online-Only Distribution. By Angela Doland, Associated Press Writer (washingtonpost.com, January 26, 2004):

With the Internet transforming how people buy and listen to songs, musicians need to act now to claim digital music's future, Gabriel and Eno argued Monday as they handed out a slim red manifesto at a huge dealmaking music conference known as Midem."

Don't sue me, I'm only the piano player Suing for file-sharing is only the start and soon we could be paying to sing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson (BBC News, 16 January, 2004).

"If you want a wedding video then your video-maker will have to pay out about £80 to license the background music, even though it is for personal use. If I make a home video of my daughter's birthday party in a local restaurant and put it online for the family, I could be in trouble for using the restaurant's logo. I could also be in trouble for recording an unlicensed performance of that well-known - but still copyrighted - song, "Happy Birthday". Who knows what creativity could be unleashed by the growth of digital distribution and the widespread availability of programs to create, sample and manipulate content. "

-- Espana: "La reduccion al absurdo de la propiedad intelectual" por Jose Cervera - El Mundo, 16 Enero, 2004.

-- The Tyranny of Copyright? By Robert S. Boynton - NYT , January 25, 2004.

Mel Gibson film 'Passion' to debut on 2,000 screens Reuters / Haaretz (Thu., January 15, 2004 Tevet 21, 5764).

"Sometimes a little faith can go a long way. Mel Gibson's controversial new film, "The Passion of Christ," which at first had a hard time finding a distributor, will be independently released on about 2,000 screens in the United States next month, a Gibson spokesman said on Wednesday. A release on 2,000 screens is similar to what a major studio release would receive."

Gibson expects backlash over movie will intensify. Broward Liston - Reuters "Toronto Star" (Jan. 23, 2004).

"Youth urged to see it despite R rating -- Jewish criticism follows screenings."

-- Statement by Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls on 'The Passion of the Christ' :
"Vatican City, Jan 22, 2004 (VIS) - The following statement was released this morning by Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls:

"After consultation with the Holy Father's personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, I can confirm that the Pope has had the opportunity to see the film, 'The Passion of the Christ'. The film is the cinematographic recounting of the historical fact of the passion of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel accounts.

"It is the Holy Father's custom not to express public judgments on artistic works, judgments which are always open to diverse evaluations of an aesthetic nature."

-- 'It Is as It Was'. Read on Peggy Noonan and her piece on The Passion, published today in The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page.

-- Download Mel Gibson's "Passion": On Review at the Vatican - Exclusive Interview With Father Di Noia of the Doctrinal Congregation ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome (Code: ZE03120835 - Date: 2003-12-08).
-- Read in English a "Scriptor.org - The Back Porch" first look at this film.
-- Read in Spanish a "Scriptor.org - The Back Porch" first look at this film.
-- Read the same text in Italian.

-- Investigación internacional sobre 'El señor de los anillos'. Un equipo de la Universidad de Navarra analiza la reacción de la audiencia española ante la película 'El retorno del rey':

"Se trata del mayor estudio internacional sobre audiencias que se ha llevado a cabo en el mundo hasta el momento". Con estas palabras describe José Javier Sánchez-Aranda, profesor del departamento de Comunicación Pública de la Universidad de Navarra, la investigación titulada "El lanzamiento y recepción de El retorno del rey: el papel del cine de fantasía".

Más de 20 universidades de diversos países -Reino Unido, Nueva Zelanda, Alemania, Francia, EE. UU., China y la India, entre otros- se han sumado al proyecto que dirige el profesor de la Universidad de Gales Martin Barker. El equipo de la Universidad de Navarra, único centro español que participa en esta iniciativa, está coordinado por los profesores de la Facultad de Comunicación José Javier Sánchez-Aranda, Joseba Bonaut y Mª Mar Grandío.
En la página web oficial del proyecto figura el texto de la encuesta en la que se espera participen más de 100.000 personas.

-- O'Connor v. the Antichrist. Henry Edmondson: "Return to Good & Evil: Flannery O'Connor Response to Nihilism". Reviewed by Lucas E. Morel (Christianitytoday, 01/12/2004):

"Flannery O'Connor, a Southern writer of deep Catholic convictions, once wrote, "The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural." On Henry Edmondson's persuasive reading of O'Connor, the distortions of modern life stem primarily from the easy nihilismof a culture soured on the dictates of both revelation and reason.

-- Should Lord of the Rings get the big prize?. YES says Mark Monahan - NO says Tom Horan, "telegraph.co.uk" (Filed: 28/11/2003):

"The first two films in the Tolkien trilogy won only technical Oscars - but many are predicting that the final part will clean up. Mark Monahan and Tom Horan argue the cases for and against."

-- The Return of the King Official Site

-- Lord of the Gold Ring. By Ethan Gilsdorf, The Boston Globe, (11/16/2003):

"Which book was cited "greatest of the century" in several British polls? Which first two films of a trilogy grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide? What author sold at least 100 million books -- 11 million in the United States alone last year -- and also wrote what has been called "the world's most popular work of fiction"?

If you're thinking Ulysses, Star Wars, or J. K. Rowling, think again. The answer to all three is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his much beloved, misunderstood, and now massively marketed The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien's staying power is unprecedented. That a spotlight-shunning Oxford professor, dead for three decades, who specialized in the rather mundane field of philology (the history of languages), still casts such an enchanting spell over contemporary culture is a remarkable achievement."

-- Why The Matrix Matters. MIT's Technology Review (November 10, 2003), by Henry Jenkins :

"To understand why The Matrix is important, you have to go back to the concept of Transmedia Storytelling, which I spelled out in a column earlier this year: "In the ideal form of transmedia storytelling, each medium does what it does best --so that a story might be introduced in a film, expanded through television, novels, and comics, and its world might be explored and experienced through game play.... Reading across the media sustains a depth of experience that motivates more consumption.... Offering new levels of insight and experience refreshes the franchise and sustains consumer loyalty."

-- More on "Fiction" -- Autumn 2003 Items.

-- More On "Fiction" -- Summer 2003 Items.

Links on Tolkien & "The Lord of the Rings" book and film, Dickens & "Nicholas Nickleby" film version, Shakespeare & The MIT "Hamlet" Project, Giovanni Paolo II & "Trittico Romano". Websites or webpages on Tarkovski, F. O'Connor, Jose Luis Guerin... Find Screeplays, news about The Project Gutemberg...

Go To Fiction Writers & Their Works.

Find links on David Mamet views on Stalislawsky and the last 90 seconds in a play - The Cinemarati, a web Alliance for Film Commentary - The Act One: Writing for Hollywood programs - Some opinions on play's translations - and on intellectual property - Rene Girard on the diversity of the Gospels and mytical revelations - Texts on What is Literary Writing? - Bibliography, Seminars and Programs on Screenwriting - ...

Go To Fiction Writer's Writing.

Go To "Matrix R-loaded"

Go To "The Mel Gibson's 'Passion' Affair".

Peter Millar (The Times, London, 21 June 2003): "Holy humbug": "This is without doubt, the silliest, most inaccurate, ill-informed, stereotype- driven, cloth-eared, cardboard-cutout-populated piece of pulp fiction that I have read. And that's saying something."

Philip Jenkins in his book The New Anti-Catholicism: "In our ''correct'' society, a statement seen as racist, anti-Semitic, anti-woman or gay bashing will disqualify a writer for years -- but not insults to Jesus Christ and those who follow his precepts. Far from it: Enlarge shop-worn Catholic-conspiracy tales into book length, and it can make you rich and famous, as it has one Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code".

Go To "Reasons and Perplexities on a Bestseller: The Da Vinci Code.

-- Television's "missing men" found online . By Stephanie Woo, Section Editor NYT (2004-03-30):

-- Ex-Watergate writer laments 'idiot culture'. By Brad Dennis, Times Staff Writer (March 19, 2004 ):

" Bernstein, the former Washington Post journalist who, along with fellow reporter Bob Woodward, unearthed the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, said much of today's news has deteriorated into gossip, sensationalism and manufactured controversy.

That type of news panders to the public and insults their intelligence, ignoring the context of real life, he said. Good journalism, Bernstein said, "should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."

-- If News Is a Conversation, Who Monitors the Conversation? By Ken Sands, Poynteronline (March 22, 2004):

"Traditional media such as newspapers and TV stations no longer have a monopoly on news because of the Web. And the definition of news on the Web is changing because of interactivity. Media watchers such as Jeff Jarvis like to say that "news is a conversation."

To facilitate that conversation, bloggers typically allow readers to comment on individual posts. Many websites of traditional news media have reader forums, where unfiltered comments appear online. The problem is that conversation too often is uncivil, if not downright nasty. Individual bloggers can police the comments on their blogs. But what about forums on media websites?.

-- Who Needs an Agent? You Do! By Rachel Toor, The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 19, 2004):

"If all you want to do is write monographs for your peers, if your authorial intent is to fill a specific scholarly gap, if your publishing ambition is simply to be published, then you do not need an agent. Some university presses still publish monographs -- though not as many as before and not always with financial success.
(...) Not so many years ago writing a trade book would bring accusations of popularizing, an academic sin worse than spending a Sunday night watching the Super Bowl.

(...) The real question, it seems to me, is not why would anyone want an agent, but how could you expect to reach a broad audience without one? Agents hold up a magnifying mirror to your work, helping you mask the flaws while working to bring out the best, most valuable parts. Then, once you get the book written, your agent will mediate your relationship with your publisher. An agent will represent your interests and will tell you, if you're wrong, when to back off. Remember: The publisher is paying your editor; you pay your agent. Fifteen percent seems like a bargain."

-- The media battleground. What lesson does the American media's coverage of the Iraq war hold for this year's presidential elections? By Todd Gitlin, OpenDemocracy (19 - 3 - 2004 ):

"Election fever has not yet swept California. Bush and Kerry have been muscled out of the political scene by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. That will probably change as the year progresses, but the University of California at Berkeley, where I've been this week, has always felt a world away from New York and Washington. ItÕs a nice place to go for a different perspective.
My last two columns have looked at the early Republican efforts to manipulate the media machine. The Spanish electorate have just punished Bush's ally Jose Maria Aznar for seemingly spinning a false line. Will the American electorate do the same to Bush? "

-- A University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies). By Milton Greenberg, Educause Review, vol. 39, no. 2 (March/April 2004): 10Ð16:

"Academe emerges from -and largely remains within- a culture that sees only a remote and sometimes hostile relationship between its activities and the economic system. This view takes the form of an often-heard campus expression: "A university is not a business.""

-- Los cinco jinetes apocalípticos del periodismo español actual: concentración, consonancia, constricción, clausura y comercialidad. Por José Luis Dader - Sala de Prensa, 65, VI, Vol. 3 (Marzo 2004):

"Cuantos compartimos los ideales de una sociedad abierta y plural tendemos a lamentar cualquier reducción de la diversidad de medios periodísticos coexistentes en una sociedad o Ðcomo prefieren decir algunos tecnoliberales-, en un "mercado". No en balde, los herederos del sueño ilustrado de las democracias atlánticas hemos crecido como ciudadanos bajo el lema jeffersoniano de "entre deber optar por un gobierno sin periódicos o periódicos sin un gobierno, no dudaría un momento en preferir esto último"; aun cuando sea preciso recordar también que el mismo pionero de la democracia, al poco de ejercer la presidencia estadounidense se desdijo de este modo: "La supresión de la prensa no podría privar más completamente a la nación de sus beneficios de lo que se ha hecho por su prostituida entrega a la falsedad. Nada se puede creer de lo que se lee ahora en un periódico. La verdad misma se vuelve sospechosa al ser colocada en ese instrumento contaminado (...) La persona que nunca echa una mirada a un periódico está mejor informada que aquella que los lee" (Cfr. Chaffee, 1975:85-128)."

-- Redefining the News Online. USC Annemberg - Online Journalism Review - Workplace (2004-03-01) :

"Journalists around the world have long agreed on a set of values that help define whether a story is newsworthy. But a new book about online news argues that these rules are in flux: "Newsworthy" is slowly being redefined online by an increasingly participatory audience.

Pablo J. Boczkowski: "Print newspapers' pursuit of nonprint delivery options has not been simply a technical change to the people involved, but a fundamental cultural transformation.""

-- Columbia Dean Retooling Curriculum. By Staci D. Kramer, USC Annemberg - Online Journalism Review. (2004-03-01) :

"In 2002, Nick Lemann -- then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker -- was one of 30 people asked by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger to serve on a task force convened to examine "what a pre-eminent school of journalism should look like in the contemporary world."

The search for a new dean for Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism was put on hold while the group of journalists, academics and others met six times. In April 2003, Bollinger laid out his thoughts about journalism curriculum, including the ideas that a graduate education should take longer than 10 months and should do more than teach "basic skills training": It should also give students a "base of knowledge across relevant fields" by teaching them about political theory, statistics, economics, philosophy, science and other topics."

-- It's New, But Is It News?. By George Simpson, MediaPost (January 27, 2004) :

"Having worked in and around news organizations for most of my life, I have come to understand that news is too often in the eye of the beholder. While journalists train and then strain to be "objective," they are human beings who bring their own subjectivity to the process of deciding who, what, where, how, and why."

-- USA TODAY reporter resigns after deception By Blake Morrison, USA TODAY (1/13/2004):

"USA TODAY foreign correspondent Jack Kelley was forced to resign last week after he repeatedly misled editors during an internal investigation into stories he wrote, the newspaper's top editors said Monday."
-- EU for journalists. EU for journalists - Brussels in brief (EU4Journalists.com) has been designed and created by the European Journalism Centre :

"The European Union will affect 500 million lives in 2004 and is a hot topic for journalists. Trying to navigate through the maze of information and mechanisms of the EU can be tricky.

On this site, you can find a selection of EU topics under discussion, who is involved and how you can contact them, as well as potential story ideas. Plus, you'll find links to many of the key websites."


-- BBC governors hold crisis talks. BBC News (Thursday, 29 January, 2004):

"The issues in play are significant: truth (and lies), government judgment (and its spin), media investigation (and the lack of it), the choice of war and the character of democratic government."




-- Targeted by the "adopt a journalist" campaign. By Noah Shachtman , Wired News (Jan. 28, 2004):

"Tim Withers is a careful reader. A very careful reader. Every time The New York Times' political reporter Jodi Wilgoren writes an article, Withers spends as much as an hour examining every period, predicate and gerund in her story. He combs through Wilgoren's word choices, pouncing on any hint of political bias. And then, when he's done with his analysis, Withers posts his findings to The Wilgoren Watch , his new weblog devoted to all things Jodi. Withers isn't alone. In recent weeks, half a dozen or more blogs devoted to tracking the work of a single political reporter have emerged from the ether."


-- A Gabo le pierde el poder. Lo que une a Garcia Marquez con Fidel Castro // El Mundo - Efe (28 de Enero de 2004):

"Gabo y Fidel, el paisaje de una amistad (Ed. Espasa), escrito por Angel Esteban y Stephanie Panichelli, es el titulo del libro, que, en palabras del escritor JuanJosé Armas Marcelo, describe "el paisaje de una amistad que se convertirá en el paisaje de muchas enemistades porque escarba en las honduras del poder de dos hombres muy importantes en el desarrollo del siglo XX. Un libro ferozmente indiscreto".

Una de las cosas más claras para los autores es que a Gabriel García Márquez "no le interesan los escritores sino el poder, el poder de los políticos, no ejercer algún puesto político sino estar cerca; tal vez por su origen humilde o por las dificultades por las que pasó o por su profesión de periodista, que ama por encima de la de escritor", concluyó Angel Esteban."


-- Please, Do Believability Check. By Tom Hespos, Onlinespin (January 27, 2004):

"Cynicism is one of the reasons why we need to check all of our communications, especially online communications, for believability. When we make claims that are questionable, or otherwise communicate something to the consumer that is perceived as something less than true, the consumer tends to dismiss anything else that comes out of our mouths. In such a situation, how can we expect to build a trustworthy brand?."


-- War in Film, Television, and History. The "Film & History" Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies in conjunction with The Film and History League announces their third biennial conference (November 11-14, 2004):

"How wars have been presented in film and television. (No geographical, chronological, or national restrictions.) Topics such as the spectrum of American wars from the Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom; also relevant are European and Asian wars. Television coverage is always pertinent, especially since 1960. In addition, propaganda, feature, actuality productions are all relevant as are themes which transcend time periods."


-- Is Howard Dean a Dot Com? Posted by Henry Jenkins (MIT Technology Review Daily Weblog @ 1/21/2004):

"No cybercandidate had won a major party nomination. One reason is that candidates have to campaign in a hybrid media environment and right now, what plays well on the internet is almost exactly opposite from what plays well on television.

Part of what happened to Dean was that complex ideas which could be developed through a post in his blog were reduced by his opponents into "sound bytes" which could be used against him on television, forcing him perpetually on the defensive. We can add to that the fact that he looks awkward in some televised contexts -- most people seem to think he looked really awkward the other night in Iowa -- and this adds to the perception that he has a "temprement" problem."


-- 14 advices on Time-savers for bloggers By Dave Pollard (Last update: 02/01/2004 - posted: December 29, 2003):

"As much as I enjoy blogging, there are times it becomes an ordeal, especially when I am plagued by deadlines or a heavy workload. (...) The 14th advice: Give yourself time to think, to experience offline, and to think creatively. This is the most important time-saver of all. Don't just react to what you read and see in the news. Get away from reading and your computer and other media, take a walk, do things that stimulate your creativity and give you unique material to write about, talk to people to get different viewpoints and ideas, clear your mind, think about what's really important to you, what you really believe, what you think needs to be done and said, and then write about that."


-- Faith Matters . "From the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage to civil rights, religion has led the way for social change." By Jim Wallis , "TomPaine.com-mon sense" (This piece orignially appeared in The New York Times on Dec. 28, 2003.)

"By declining to discuss "religious topics" openly, Democrats allow Republicans to define the terms of the debate. The failure of Democrats to talk about religion shows they do not appreciate the contributions of religion to American life. God is always personal, but never private. The Democrats are wrong to restrict religion to the private sphere just as the Republicans are wrong to define it solely in terms of individual moral choices and sexual ethics. Allowing the right to decide what is a religious issue would be both a moral and political tragedy.
Not everyone in America has the same religious values, of course. And many moral lessons are open to interpretation. But by withdrawing into secularism, the Democrats deprive Americans of an important debate. "


-- The cyberbrains behind Howard Dean. By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com (January 16, 2004) - Just one year ago, few Americans had heard about an obscure governor who happened to want to be president of the United States.

"But a recent surge by his rivals notwithstanding, former Vermont governor Howard Dean is still the man to beat--a startling change that has shaken the foundations of the Democratic Party and is largely due to the Internet. (...) It's not that Howard Dean was made for the Internet. It's more like the Internet was made for politicians like Howard Dean who have chosen to campaign against the Washington, D.C., establishment.
To understand how his campaign has mobilized online activists, CNET News.com spoke with Zephyr Teachout, Dean's director of Internet organizing, a few days before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 19."


-- CJR The Campaing Desk Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review

"January 15, 2004 - Opening Shot - Welcome to "CampaignDesk.org": Thanks to generous funding from foundations -- mainly the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Revson Foundation, and the Open Society Institute -- we have set up a campaign press criticism "war room" here at the Journalism School, with the beginnings of a full-time professional staff of seven that will monitor as much of the campaign coverage as possible, and write about it here."

-- A Report to The Wall Street Journal's World-Wide Readers A Letter From the Publisher, Karen Elliott House:

"At The Wall Street Journal we let our work speak for itself and keep references to the Journal to a minimum. But, by tradition, once a year we address you, our millions of readers around the world, on some aspect of this publication -- and how we seek to serve you. This year I want to focus on the editorial pages of The Journal, which express this publication's opinions. I want to explain the philosophy that guides them, and the role they serve in the Journal and in the wider world." (WSJ, 2004-01-08).

-- Bloggers Rate the Most Influential Blogs By Mark Glaser: "It's been a breakout year for Webloggers as they've taken on Trent Lott and The New York Times, as well as put their own stamp on the war in Iraq. So. Who's who in the blogosphere?" (USC Online Journalism Review: Posted: 2003-06-23).

Mark Glaser point: "This column is an attempt to show which Weblogs are influencing the media the most. That's really a vague idea, but that gives me latitude to be wrong just enough to bring your catcalls and counterarguments"

-- Covering Religion and Faith By Mark Silk, Founding Director of the "Leonard E. Greenberg Ctr. for the Study of Religion in the Public Life" - (Journalism.org, Issue 2: Winter 2003):

Mark Silk point: "More than anything else, what is required journalistically is to break down the newsroom partitions that separate religion beat reporters from those covering politics-and all the public issues that go along with politics. Unless this happens, much of what is happening in American society today is going to be missed, or misunderstood."

-- More on "Non-Fiction" -- Autumn 2003 Items.

-- More on "Non-Fiction" -- Summer 2003 Items.

Yet a few links on those matters: read on Amitai Etzioni memoirs "My Brother's Keeper" - or on a very different author: Professor Fogg, from Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, the first book on "captology", the study of digital "Persuasive Technologies"...

Go To Non-Fiction Writers & Their Work.

About the U.N. Literacy Decade (2003-2012) - R. Kapucinski on news manipulation - C. Scanlon on standard news reporting - J.L. Orihuela on weblog writing and The European Weblog Conference - About the French Museum of Advertising - The next US National Conference on Media Reform - or about "Spin of the Day", on the PR writing, from the Center for Media & Democracy ....

Go To Non-Fiction Writing.

Read the main approaches and positions in the cultural and professional debate on the "Jayson Blair & NYT Scandal": analysis, stories and opinions from experts, academics and professionals in Media Ethics, Crisis Management, Journalism Credibility Problems...

Go To The NYT Affair.

Read the main approaches and positions in the cultural and professional debate on the "Iraqi War Agendas": analysis, stories and opinions from experts, academics and professionals in mixed terms and positions of Accountability, Patriotism, Deception...

Go To The "Tug of Public Communication War".

Read the main approaches and positions in the professional debate on the "Jessica Lynch Affair": analysis, stories and opinions from experts, academics and professionals in terms of "Fiction / Non-Fiction", "Journalism / Propaganda / PR", "The Pentagon / The BBC / The CBS"...

Go To The Private Lynch Affair.