http://www.culture-cast.org/index.htmlen-usCopyright 2007 Culture-Cast.orgadmin@culture-cast.orgDelving into media and culture to a depth ignored by the mainstream, corporate - sometimes even alternative - media. The Culture-Cast provides background, insight, crticism and illumination on media trends. We also provide exposure to under appreciated or underexposed artists, musicians, writers, poets, and filmmakers.http://podcast.culture-cast.org/index.html#20071003In this episode, we continue our discussion of the American obsession with sports, including recent revelations detailing the fanatical disregard for health in high school athletics. We talk about the FBI and its recent blunders, and go in depth about the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, recently passed overwhelmingly by the senate but facing a presidential veto. We also raise two quick issues concerning the President's war on American Freedoms. Our musical selections come from a french acoustic band from Bordeaux, Apatride.culturehttp://podcast.culture-cast.org/media/cc-20071003.mp3Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:49:22 EDThttp://culture-cast.org/podcast/index.html#ccenh-20070908We're back (again) - seems that we've had to do this a little too often, but we do have another site member to take the load off. This is a brief episode - we had to have something soon, or lose the two listeners we do have. In this episode, we discuss the tainted home run record of Barry Bonds, the recent rain of feces upon the Bush Administration, and introduce our newest site member, Christian, blogging at Caspernicus. Also: an interview with Karl Rove and a brief rundown of his recent escapades. Our featured musician is C. Glenn Williams, playing three tracks from his first full-length album, ''Post-Millennial Heebie Jeebies.''Culturehttp://culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070908.mp3Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:46:44 -0500http://culture-cast.org/podcast/index.html#20070723In this episode, we continue our July theme of Civil Liberties and the relationship of the media to our increasing cultural ignorance thereof. We discuss impeachment - providing background to a topic we're planning to return to quite soon, as well as the Civil Rights movement and some surprising modern trends. Included in this segment are several audio clips from recent Supreme Court cases, courtesy of Oyez.org. Finally, we discuss the media's non-coverage of one of the most disturbing attacks on the Bill of Rights since the Cold War. The music in this episode is by David Kilpatrick, a scottish songwriter who currently organizes the Friday Night Live music session at the Cobbles Inn in Kelso, Scotland. He plays his own music as well as traditional Scottish music, and his song, Valentine's Day Massedguitars was recently no. 1 for acoustic guitar and a top ten song on soundclick.com. All sources, including Kilpatrick's music, are listed and linked on the Blogcast, the blogging hub of Culture-cast.org, on the Episode Blog.Culturehttp://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070720.mp3Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:19:32 -0500http://culture-cast.org/podcast/index.html#ccenh-20070706This is the first episode testing parts of the new format. You might notice a move towards themes: a move we'll fully embrace as time progresses. We'll still keep the commentary all over the map, but sometimes there might be an extra focus in our segments. This episode discusses civil liberties and the state of citizen understanding thereof - and the media's complicity in our growing ignorance, featuring an in-depth segment about the clash of freedoms as well as two quick comments on oft-overlooked or under-studied civic issues that bear heavily on the present. Reading from Christopher Salerno, ''Like it's 1799,'' musical selections from Interstate Medicine, by Slim, an Oakland (CA) based band.Culturehttp://culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070706.mp3Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:35:00 -0400http://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/index.html#ccenh-20070611Finally back after a long hiatus, we deliver on our long-promised tribute to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., whose passing in April will long be felt in the American literary world. Vonnegut's writing career got off to a relatively late start; however, from the early 1960's until his passing, his works were among the most widely read of any living author. Slaughterhouse-Five became a fixture on college campuses across the US, and Vonnegut's unique style, which evolved from one as descriptive as Fitzgerald, would become easily recognizable and as influential to our current generation of authors as that of Hemingway and Twain. Also featured is an in-depth feature about the student loan scandal, including a timeline of its development, and an analysis discussing the meaning of our reactions to its development.Culturehttp://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070611.mp3Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:05:07 -0400http://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/arch3-07.html#ccenh-20070406In this episode, we return to the ideas of bias and objectivity that we discussed in our most recent episode. We address public perceptions of bias in the media and point out one of the worst media offenders in the bias lie. We relive the month of April in the 1970s in our Time Capsule session; and once again, we feature two readings by poet Thomas David Lisk from his new volume, 'These Beautiful Limits,' entitled ''The World's Religions,'' and ''Oregon Trail.'' Our musical selection features the remarkable work of Rob Costlow, a solo pianist whose style is as unique as it is precise and passionate. To learn more about our featured artists, visit our blog at blogcast.culture-cast.org. Finally, we reissue our call for contributors. Join us!Culturehttp://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070406.mp3Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:01:42 -0400http://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/arch3-07.html#ccenh-20070321This episode, from March 21, 2007, includes an extensive discussion of the ideas of bias and objectivity that seem to dominate discussions about the media in our current environment. We'll go in-depth about point of view in communication and talk about the degradation of meaning in the word objectivity. This episode introduces our Time Capsule feature, and features readings by Thomas Lisk from his new book of poetry, These Beautiful Limits, and music from Michiboux.Culturehttp://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070321.mp3Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:17:00 -0400http://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/arch3-07.html#ccenh-20070306The March 2, 2007 episode of the Culture-Cast includes a discussion of free-speech codes on campus, lexical absurdities that the mainstream media should abandon, and the media critique of the week. We also discuss a few classical music selections.http://www.culture-cast.org/podcast/media/cc-20070306.mp3Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0400