A show that should definitely be on your DVR queue is The IFC Media Project, hosted by MTV alum Gideon Yago.
Not enough people know where their media comes from and who owns it and what the agenda of those people are. Note: It's not just the Jews!
(Another note ... The media? Not actually so liberal. Yes, I realize the writer, Eric Alterman, is regualrly noted as part of said Librulmedia, but he makes a very good case between the covers of this book.)
Tonight the show looks at four journalists who call the White House Briefing Room their workspace (and I'm sure they will inhabit many points in the political spectrum) whose work they have followed since the Obama inauguration.
Yago does a great job moving things along and it's edited snappily and there's an animated feature each episode called The News Junkie that pretty entertaining while it gets its points across. Worth recording, especially now that all your fave prime time shows are in reruns.
Think of it as the Summer enrichment class that your local school district just canceled because there's no money. And there's lots of stuff like that on the tube if you just look. You don't get that swell continuing education certificate of completion, but as you know one of those and five bucks will buy you a Sunday New York Times.
Watch the News Junkie segment on the Somali pirates and coverage of Africa in the news in a short clip after the jump.
And, if you go to the show site, you can watch an interview with Janeane Garofalo where her hair looks clean (which as you know is my pet peeve with her). On Jimmy Fallon this past week however? Janeane was not so much rocking the clean hair. Alas, she'll never know, she no longer has web access she told Jimmy.
I mean c'mon, is it a lot to ask someone to wash their hair?
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