Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing, April 25-May 8
Watching Like a Mother
In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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Why So Young, Network TV?
Tonight, when Betty White hosts Saturday Night Live, American network television will be stepping outside of its comfort zone, by featuring someone a whole 5.5 times as old as Justin Bieber.
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It’s a Bird! It’s GaGa! It’s…Miley?
Music videos are alive and well on the internet, and Miley Cyrus' latest - for her new single,"Can't Be Tamed" - represents a significant rhetorical moment in her star persona (and Disney's pockets).
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“I Don’t Give a Damn About My ‘Bad Reputation’”: Glee Talks Back
I think this is the essence of Glee’s appeal: It “mashes” together the old and the new, the shallow and the deep, and in the end asks us to appreciate that our lives are much like popular culture.
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Lost Wednesdays: There Will Be Blood
Returning from a week off, let's get right to the carnage.
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Do New Media/Social Media Distort Political Reality?
As the Republican Party careens off into the netherworld of nuttery crafted by right wingnuts, we must ask ourselves what role users of new media play in helping craft their appeal. Do they deserve the attention we afford them through our own actions employing new media/social media?
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?
Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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On Sports Irrelevance
We hear a lot about teams and fans that are "tortured," but what about the ones we don't hear about at all?
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NBCU’s ISM FTW?
NBCU is offering "integrated sales marketing" to advertisers at this year's upfronts to bolster poor ratings during the ad sales push...but will it work?
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A Damaged Conclusion
Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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Meet the Bigots: When Popular Culture and Unpopular Politicians Collide
Rarely has television fiction been replicated and superseded by actual events as drastically as in Wednesday’s meeting of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown with Rochdale-based pensioner Gillian Duffy.
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Glee Club: Performing Recordings
Some thoughts on the peculiar nature of Glee's soundtrack and why it both pulls me in and repels me from the program.
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Is It OK to Type This?
How did the recent South Park controversy on depicting Mohammed contribute to our overall understanding of the issue?
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Getting Beyond the Thunderdome: David Brooks’ Fantastical “Riders on the Storm”
Are people more open to new ideas when they get their daily news through the Internet or do they tend to use today's historically unparalleled access to support what they already think?
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The Right to Make Wrong TV?
Later this year, the RightNetwork, a network dedicated to programming solely for conservatives, will launch. I’m intrigued by this network for a few reasons.
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