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UK Still from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Will History Remember the “Ding Dong!” Over Margaret Thatcher?

After much controversy, the BBC last night played a seven second clip of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead on its traditional Sunday night music chart show. The song had been the subject of an internet campaign to get it to number one on the British charts as a “celebration” of the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Film & TV Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
Aurora Shootings: Blockbuster Blame?

The immediate information emerging in the aftermath of James Holmes’ murder rampage in Aurora, Colorado, makes a good case for the idea that media violence begets the real thing. A closer look, however, tells a different tale.