Sundance Channel

Do books ever change anything? And a note on Palin’s print problem

Perrin Drumm — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:45:45 +0000

With the Brooklyn Book Festival now behind us and the NY Art Book Fair just around the corner, I've been thinking a lot about the power of the printed word and whether or not books matter as much now as they used to. I'm not talking about how we're warming up to our e-readers and giving ink and paper the cold shoulder; I mean the relevancy and power of the content itself - no matter how you choose to access it.

Food, Inc.: A gut-wrenching revelation of what’s really on your plate

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:11:37 +0000

E. coli? Obesity? Illegal immigration? Hardly a day goes by, it seems, when one of these issues doesn't appear somewhere in the news. The new documentary film Food Inc. does something that few in the mainstream media have tried with these issues: it demonstrates how they're all connected to our food system, and the mass production methods that now dominate food processing in the United States.