We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place