The CBS sports commentator who concluded, “Tonight the City of New Orleans embraced football,” doesn’t know the first thing about television reception. On Superbowl Sunday 2010, viewers saw how a football team has embraced a city and its culture for decades.
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Tags: New Orleans, Saints, sports, Super Bowl
Posted in Current Events, TV | 4 Comments »
After weeks of controversy and speculation, Focus on the Family's 30-second Super bowl spot featuring Heisman Trophy-winner Tim Tebow was as decidedly uncontroversial as CBS claimed it would be.
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Tags: abortion debate, pro-choice, pro-life, Super Bowl ad, Tim Tebow
Posted in Current Events, TV, TV | 28 Comments »
Some quick thoughts about the season 6 premiere of Lost - spoilers abound!
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Tags: Lost
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Lost Wednesdays, TV | 14 Comments »
Now that you've seen the list, what do you think of the idea of having ten nominations for Best Pic? Who was robbed? Who did the robbing?
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Tags: awards, oscars
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Film, What Do You Think? | 5 Comments »
Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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Tags: Facebook, industry, internet, music, ratings, television, Twitter
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Industry, Internet, Music, Perspectives, TV | 6 Comments »
On Saturday night, 23 year-old Caressa Cameron became Miss America 2010, earning $50,000 in scholarship money, a really big crown, and an even bigger anachronistic title.
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Tags: feminism, Miss America 2010
Posted in Current Events, TV | 6 Comments »
Sony's new reality TV program on the PlayStation Network continues to raise questions about audience/player (mis)perceptions of labor and production in the games industry.
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Tags: labor, reality television, Sony, video games
Posted in Current Events, Games, Industry, TV | 3 Comments »
While much of yesterday’s Internet conversation centered on whether the iPad is a game changer for TV, gaming, publishing, and future of ebooks, I want to address the potentially unnerving aspects of how Apple constructed the user yesterday and point out that while Apple may be a global company, its users are definitely not.
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Tags: iPad bodies industry users
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Technology | 1 Comment »
Apple has a new product. Are the possibilities as endless as the apps in the app store or is it much ado about nothing?
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Tags: Apple, media consumption, technology
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Technology, What Do You Think? | 8 Comments »
Five thoughts on the film adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber.
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Tags: film
Posted in Current Events, Film, TV | 14 Comments »
In the past few weeks, a fresh controversy about the working conditions in the industry of game development has arisen, this time centered on Rockstar San Diego.
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Tags: ethics, games, industry, workplace
Posted in Current Events, Games, Industry, Technology | 7 Comments »
The US television coverage of Haiti has me thinking about the role of media in a humanitarian crisis.
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Tags: Haiti, news, television
Posted in Current Events, TV | 9 Comments »
Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. But ironically to keep the "American" in American Idol, the show needs Simon, or at least an angry, pompous, belittling Brit judge like him.
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Tags: American Idol, FOX, nationality, Simon Cowell
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Music, TV | 2 Comments »
In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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Tags: China, Google, hackers, internet, policy
Posted in Current Events, Global, Internet | 2 Comments »
Only 8 years into the Spider-Man film franchise, Sony's decision to start from scratch seems a little hasty. Why reboot Spider-Man?
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Tags: film, franchise, industry, reboot, Spider-Man
Posted in Current Events, Film, Film, Industry, Industry | 7 Comments »