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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Tags: consumption, Extreme Couponing, Michel de Certeau, reality television, tactics, TLC
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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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Tags: HBO, music, New Orleans, television, Treme, TV
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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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Tags: crooners, gender, gender/representation, Glee, masculinity, Representation, sexuality, singing
Posted in Columns, Glee Club, Perspectives, TV | 3 Comments »
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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Tags: authorship, Doctor Who, fandom, fans, quality television, quality TV, repetition, showrunners, Steven Moffat
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Doctor Who & Authorship, TV | 11 Comments »
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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Tags: Media, Mike Viqueira, MSNBC, Osama Bin Laden, Twitter
Posted in Internet, Internet, Politics, Politics, TV, TV | 5 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Blu-ray, cloud services, DVD, Facebook, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, music, net neutrality, Netflix, Redbox, Sony, streaming, television, Twitter, video games, VOD, Weinstein Co.
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