Patrick Courrielche

Which network was it that was accused of broadcasting opinion journalism masquerading as news? On Friday, during the “CNN Newsroom” hour, the network broadcast a story of the White House’s use of Hollywood to promote national service. Your humble Big

Service to our nation is a noble effort, which is why some may view Serve.gov in a good light. How could anyone think that promoting national service is a bad thing? Well, when our government uses “service” as a mechanism

National service and volunteerism is a top priority of both the President and the First Lady. A broad effort has been launched to promote this priority. We’ve seen this in the May 12th White House briefing, the August 10th and

I’m writing in regards to Chairman Landesman’s response to Senator Enzi’s National Endowment for the Arts inquiry (below). I want to first thank Senator Enzi and the other Senators for taking the time to compose the inquiry. I also want

A few days ago I received a call from my cousin. He’d been hearing some chatter from the family about something happening with a series of NEA articles that I’d written for Big Hollywood and wanted to find out from

Some have asked why I feel that it was okay to record the August 10th White House and National Endowment for the Arts conference call. The August 10th conference call was organized and called by the White House and two

UPDATE: [ed. note: The Washington Times reports … Another Americans for the Arts participant on August 10 call.] END UPDATE Americans for the Arts has recently sent a request to Big Hollywood to retract the statement that they were a

**NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally? That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three

Play: [audio: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/09/NEA_ConfCall_090828.mp3] Full Transcript: Full NEA Conference Call Transcript and Audio –

The Washington Times is reporting that Yosi Sergant is no longer Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. I find this troubling on several fronts. First, it is always unfortunate when someone loses their job and I do

Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues. Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she

What does it mean when a government official evades the truth? On August 25th, I published an article discussing a conference call hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United

I recently wrote a critique of the art community’s lack of dissent in the face of many controversial decisions made by the current administration. Entitled “The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident,” one of the key points argued in the article