Christ and the Media

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Summary: Malcom Rides Again! (Thank You Regent College)
Review: Malcom Muggeridge is one of the funniest, most insightful and downright stubborn authors of the twentieth century. He was funny in Punch, the British humor magazine, he was funny on the BBC in "That Was the Week That Was," and even funny in a Monte Python meets real life sort of way when he got kicked off the BBC for alledgedly mocking the Queen. Of course it was all a misunderstanding, like the misunderstanding that got writer P.G.Wodehouse denounced as a traitor for making those wartime broadcasts from Germany. Malcom Muggeridge was the man who straightened that all out and got PGW repatriated, and later PG (Plum) Wodehouse was knighted as one of Britain's best. Surely there were no hard feelings toward Malcom as well.

Then Muggeridge did an interview with Mother Teresa for the BBC, and made a series of TV shows called A Third Testament about St. Augustine, Pascal, Tolstoy and other figures who had influenced him. At the same time that priests and bishops in England were leaving orders and losing faith, Muggeridge was somehow finding it. That would have been forgiveable, but he remained subversively funny. The essays collected in The Most of Malcom Muggeridge and Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes are side-splittingly funny and rank among the best of Punch's drollery. His two volume autobiography even has a funny title: The Chronicles of Wasted Time. Christ and the Media doesn't have a funny title (which may be why it originally went out of print so soon), but it contains a funny essay called "The Fourth Temptation." In a humorous role-reversal, journalist Muggeridge is also interviewed by the BBC. His roasts of the media in his many books are so funny that his opponents had no recourse but to put his books out of print. Thanks to Regent College, their little trick didn't work, and this subversive little volume is once again at large. Get it while you can and write your own review.

Rating:
Summary: Malcom Rides Again! (Thank You Regent College)
Review: Malcom Muggeridge is one of the funniest, most insightful and downright stubborn authors of the twentieth century. He was funny in Punch, the British humor magazine, he was funny on the BBC in "That Was the Week That Was," and even funny in a Monte Python meets real life sort of way when he got kicked off the BBC for alledgedly mocking the Queen. Of course it was all a misunderstanding, like the misunderstanding that got writer P.G.Wodehouse denounced as a traitor for making those wartime broadcasts from Germany. Malcom Muggeridge was the man who straightened that all out and got PGW repatriated, and later PG (Plum) Wodehouse was knighted as one of Britain's best. Surely there were no hard feelings toward Malcom as well.

Then Muggeridge did an interview with Mother Teresa for the BBC, and made a series of TV shows called A Third Testament about St. Augustine, Pascal, Tolstoy and other figures who had influenced him. At the same time that priests and bishops in England were leaving orders and losing faith, Muggeridge was somehow finding it. That would have been forgiveable, but he remained subversively funny. The essays collected in The Most of Malcom Muggeridge and Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes are side-splittingly funny and rank among the best of Punch's drollery. His two volume autobiography even has a funny title: The Chronicles of Wasted Time. Christ and the Media doesn't have a funny title (which may be why it originally went out of print so soon), but it contains a funny essay called "The Fourth Temptation." In a humorous role-reversal, journalist Muggeridge is also interviewed by the BBC. His roasts of the media in his many books are so funny that his opponents had no recourse but to put his books out of print. Thanks to Regent College, their little trick didn't work, and this subversive little volume is once again at large. Get it while you can and write your own review.