The new and evocative commercial for General Electric’s 4D Ultrasound imaging system, which has been appearing across broadcast and cable networks, opens with a saccharine rendition of Ewan McColl’s 1965 love ballad “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” The song serves as background music for a slow motion close-up of a blonde-haired, green-eyed […]
Matthew Nisbet
Matthew Nisbet is a doctoral student in the Media and Society Research Group, Department of Communication, at Cornell University. His current research focuses on public dimensions of the stem-cell and cloning controversies.
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Economically Incorrect:
Last week, ABC officially announced what many industry watchers had expected for several months: The late-night talk show Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher would be canceled, and replaced in the fall by a new entertainment program hosted by Comedy Central’s Jimmy Kimmel. When the news broke, most media reports pegged Politically Incorrect‘s demise on Maher’s […]
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Back From Outer Space:
Last Sunday’s series finale of FOX’s The X-Files appears to mark the end of a two-decade media infatuation with all things extraterrestrial, from abductions and UFO crashes to government cover-ups. There’s no doubt that this obsession helped promote a mass following for The X-Files series, and widespread public interest in UFO claims. According to a […]
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Attack of the Metaphors:
Initial reviews of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones seem to suggest that George Lucas’s latest film, techno-effects notwithstanding, isn’t much better than the Jar-Jar Binks infested The Phantom Menace. But in another sense, the movie has all the makings of a classic. Consider the following plot summary, compiled from credible reports on […]
