Archive for May, 2011

Dumpster Divers or Culture Jammers?: TLC’s Extreme Couponers

May 5, 2011
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Dumpster Divers or Culture Jammers?: TLC’s Extreme Couponers

The Learning Channel's Extreme Couponing evokes surprise, and even disgust for the lengths to which people go to accumulate coupons, acquire products, and display their stockpiles. It fails, however, to thoroughly explore people’s motivations for their actions.
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Posted in Columns, Perspectives, State of Reality TV, TV | 3 Comments »

Minstrel Show in a Three-Day Stubble of a City

May 4, 2011
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Minstrel Show in a Three-Day Stubble of a City

The second season shapes up to reconnect the city with the world around it: New Orleaneans are confronted with outsider views of the city as becomes clear in Delmond's argument about New Orleans music with fellow jazz lovers and Janette's conversation with her fellow cooks after reading Alan Richman's devastating review.
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner

May 3, 2011
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner

The popularity of Glee, and, in particular, these two singers, has made me think that American culture may finally be starting to break with the gender norms of male singing performance that have persisted for the last 80 years.
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Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who: Challenging the Format Theorem?

May 2, 2011
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Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who: Challenging the Format Theorem?

Moffat challenges the TV industry establishment far more notably than did series one through four. He's the Tom Baker to Russell T. Davies's Jon Pertwee.
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Spaces of Speculation: How We Learned Osama Bin Laden Was Dead

May 2, 2011
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Spaces of Speculation: How We Learned Osama Bin Laden Was Dead

As one of the first events of this magnitude that has taken place squarely within the Twitter era, Osama Bin Laden's death reveals the challenge facing traditional media outlets when Twitter runs rampant with speculation (and real reporting).
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Posted in Internet, Internet, Politics, Politics, TV, TV | 5 Comments »

What Are You Missing? April 17-30

May 1, 2011
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What Are You Missing? April 17-30

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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